Like many of Kaurismäki’s films, “The Other Side of Hope” finds resonance in the individual's capacity for empathy

Our 2020 retrospective continues with this tribute to a father's uncanny similarities to a governor in crisis mode

I took comfort in watching Andrew Cuomo because he reminded me so much of the father who never offered me comfort

"You turned out fine, right?" my mother said when I wanted to confront my own father. But had I?

With a constellation of bad choices available, the team behind this movie seems to have opted for all of the above

An unsentimental, carefully layered story about two reunited lovers and their struggle to understand and respect each other's art.

50 years ago, my father, a Detroit cop, was hosting a party on his day off. Then he got called in to work

Codirector Tran Thanh spoke to Salon about the appeal of his intergenerational film in Vietnam as well as the US

One immigrant chef continues a family tradition that his grandfather started in Lima in the 1940s

My father said my confessional writing humiliated him. We got along best when I had an ailment he could fix

Did we really nosh on each other's body parts -- or are we merely feeding on the dark recesses of fear and imagination?

COVID-19 has made me ask myself if I would "make the call" to get a loved one treatment. I've considered it before

The most important political documentary of the decade suggests that the "war on terrorism" is a dark delusion -- and there's no such thing as al-Qaida.

The story is just like any other, except it's very cold. And people eat each other.

Thanksgiving in my family, like many others, brings with it the shadow of death even as we celebrate our love