THEME EXPLORATION

past mistakes and accountability

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Akt
Akt
1961 · Jerzy Skolimowski
Chekhovian Motifs
Chekhovian Motifs
2002 · Kira Muratova
Dhabkaaro
Dhabkaaro
2026 · Abhishek Shah
Rashomon
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa
Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
The Pinochet Case
The Pinochet Case
2001 · Patricio Guzmán
The Secret in Their Eyes
The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · Juan José Campanella
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Collective
Collective
2019 · Alexander Nanau
Tabu
Tabu
2012 · Miguel Gomes
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michael Haneke Austria

His work systematically examines collective guilt, moral accountability, and the viewer's own complicity through deliberately challenging narratives in films like 'Funny Games' and 'The Seventh Continent'.

 Yorgos Lanthimos Greece

His films explore how individuals and systems perpetuate cycles of abuse and dysfunction while questioning accountability through darkly surreal examinations of human behavior and institutional failure.