Shoplifters

Hirokazu Kore-eda follows a household in Tokyo living off low wages and petty theft, who take in a small girl they find cold and hungry outside their door. As their life together deepens, the film asks what actually makes a family.

It is a tender and finally devastating study of chosen bonds against given ones, of what children absorb from the adults who raise them, and of care that exists outside every official definition. Palme d'Or at Cannes.