THEME EXPLORATION

hope and disillusionment

28 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh
1973 · John Frankenheimer
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 · George Miller
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Frank Darabont
Floating Clouds
Floating Clouds
1955 · Mikio Naruse
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter
1970 · Maysles Brothers
Orpheus
Orpheus
1950 · Jean Cocteau
Red Bells
Red Bells
1982 · Sergey Bondarchuk
Iron Lung
Iron Lung
2026 · Mark Fischbach
Once Upon My Mother
Once Upon My Mother
2026 · Ken Scott
Peak Everything
Peak Everything
2026 · Anne Émond
Bariera
Bariera
1966 · Jerzy Skolimowski
Camp de Thiaroye
Camp de Thiaroye
1988 · Ousmane Sembène
Le notti di Cabiria
Le notti di Cabiria
1957 · Federico Fellini
One Wonderful Sunday
One Wonderful Sunday
1947 · Akira Kurosawa
Runaway
Runaway
1958 · Ritwik Ghatak
Children of Men
Children of Men
2006 · Alfonso Cuarón
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
2022 · Edward Berger
Guras
Guras
2023 · Saurav Rai
Vesper
Vesper
2022 · Kristina Buožytė & Bruno Samper
Kanał
Kanał
1956 · Richard Groschopp
Silent Days
Silent Days
2019 · Pavol Pekarčík
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Elia Kazan
Any de Gràcia
Any de Gràcia
2012 · Ventura Pons
Divided Heaven
Divided Heaven
1964 · Konrad Wolf
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008 · Jean-François Richet
Closer to Heaven
Closer to Heaven
2009 · Park Jin-pyo
Invitation to Pleasure
Invitation to Pleasure
1980 · Walter Hugo Khouri
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 · Mira Nair
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His films explore spiritual yearning and the collision between human aspirations and existential limitation, portraying hope as both redemptive and ultimately unreachable.

 Terrence Malick United States

His poetic cinema examines the tension between transcendent idealism and harsh reality, questioning whether hope survives in an indifferent universe.

 Abbas Kiarostami Iran

His films capture the fragile hopes of ordinary people confronting social constraints and loss, finding beauty in modest moments of possibility amid disappointment.