THEME EXPLORATION

home and belonging

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are
2009 · Spike Jonze
Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In
2008 · Tomas Alfredson
Ponyo
Ponyo
2008 · Hayao Miyazaki
Toy Story
Toy Story
1995 · John Lasseter
Funny Games U.S.
Funny Games U.S.
2007 · Michael Haneke
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
2016 · Vincent Kesteloot
The Gin Game
The Gin Game
1981 · Mike Nichols
Barbie
Barbie
2023 · Greta Gerwig
Home Alone
Home Alone
1990 · Chris Columbus
The Tenant
The Tenant
1976 · Roman Polanski
Corn Island
Corn Island
2014 · Giorgi Ovashvili
Monsoon
Monsoon
2011 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Hirokazu Koreeda Japan

His films explore how home and family bonds are constructed through small, intimate moments rather than blood relations.

 Agnès Varda France

She examines displacement, rootlessness, and the search for belonging through poetic yet grounded narratives about marginalized individuals.

 Lynne Ramsay United Kingdom

Her visually fragmented style captures the psychological tension between internal worlds and the external spaces that fail to contain them.