What’s remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential clichés — the grouchy elderly ...

We all know that there is no such thing as a "normal family." We all have our quirks and some families are just a bit more ...

Ramon Zürcher’s “dysfunctional family portrait” “The Sparrow in the Chimney” (“Der Spatz im Kamin”) has debuted a trailer ahead of its premiere in Locarno’s international competition. Produced by his ...

As the great comedian Charlie Chaplin once said: "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in a long shot." Films about dysfunctional family relationships are those special kinds of ...