Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Father Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch. By turns funny, poignant and resonant, Jarmusch’s latest elegantly blends remarkable performances from its ensemble cast with his typically wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life, serving as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers, but you can’t choose your family. 

Told in the form of a triptych divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, each story concerns the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Set in rural Northeast America, FATHER sees two adult siblings spend an awkward afternoon with their reclusive father, who they are visiting for the first time in years. In MOTHER, a reunion between a successful novelist and her two daughters for their carefully prepared annual tea party in Dublin becomes increasingly revealing and amusing. SISTER BROTHER sees twin siblings meet in Paris to seek closure after the recent loss of their parents, making surprising discoveries in the process.

Reviews
"What a pleasure to see a study of family relationships so entirely unconcerned with banal platitudes, emotional calculation or trite “relatability,” that most hackneyed of perceived attributes." – The Hollywood Reporter