Father Mother Sister Brother
Opens January 9, 2026
Winner of the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s perceptive study in familial dynamics stars Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Tom Waits, and Charlotte Rampling.
"Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But then he comes along with a film as delicate and lovely, as singular and perfectly realized as Father Mother Sister Brother and quietly floors you."—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
Father Mother Sister Brother is a perceptive study in familial dynamics, a feature film carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three chapters all concern the relationships between adult children reconnecting or coming to terms with aging or lost parents, which take place in the present, and each in a different country. Siblings Jeff and Emily (Driver and Bialik) checkup on their hermetic father (Waits) in rural New Jersey; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Krieps and Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Rampling) in Dublin; and twins Skye and Billy (Moore and Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Father Mother Sister Brother is a kind of anti-action film, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate—almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. As always, Jarmusch brings his worlds to life with the essential assistance of his collaborators, including two masterful cinematographers, Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, and the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves.
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Principal Cast: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 110 min.
- Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch
- Cinematographers: Frederick Elmes, Yorick Le Saux
- Editors: Affonso Gonçalves
- Music: Jim Jarmusch
- Awards: Venice Film Festival 2025 (Golden Lion, Best Film)
- Language: English, French
- US Distributor: MUBI / Variance
- International Sales: The Match Factory