His films like 'After Life' and 'Shoplifters' intimately explore how ordinary moments and human connections reveal life's fleeting beauty and inevitable losses.

Through poetic and personal documentaries like 'The Gleaners and I' and 'Vagabond', she captures life's transience and the vulnerability of forgotten people.

Her films 'Nomadland' and 'The Rider' document the precariousness of existence through the lives of marginalized individuals facing economic displacement and physical mortality.