Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hirokazu Kore-eda arrived from documentary and his films never let that gaze go: at the centre of nearly every one is a family with something missing from it. In After Life the newly dead, held at a bureaucratic way station, choose the single memory they will take on with them. Nobody Knows follows four children their mother has abandoned. Still Walking he made after his own mother's death, and it describes a family gathering around a son who has died. I Wish has two brothers pulled apart by their parents' separation. Shoplifters won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018, the only award the festival had given him before that being the jury prize for Like Father, Like Son.