human connection across differences

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Broker' intimately explore how strangers form deep familial bonds across class, age, and social divides through quiet moments of grace.

His surreal, darkly comic works challenge conventional human interaction to expose the absurdity of connection while revealing profound vulnerability beneath social rituals.

Her visceral, fragmentary storytelling in films like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'The Lost Daughter' excavates the psychological barriers that both separate and ultimately unite broken people.