Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Father Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-anticipated new film from Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Only Lovers Left Alive). Funny, tender, and astutely observed, with fresh wrinkles in his signature absurdist deadpan, this is an intimate exploration of the intricacies that make family dynamics unique and universal. Told in the form of a triptych—reminiscent of Jarmusch’s globetrotting anthologies Mystery Train and Night on Earth, as well as the sketch comedy of Coffee and Cigarettes—Father Mother Sister Brother is divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, and each story concerns the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.
Siblings Jeff and Emily (Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik) check up on their hermetic father (Tom Waits) in rural New Jersey; sisters Lilith and Timothea (Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett) reunite with their guarded novelist mother (Charlotte Rampling) in Dublin; and twins Skye and Billy (Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat) return to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy. Blending remarkable performances from its stacked ensemble cast with Jarmusch’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life, the iconic indie director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers, but you can’t choose your family.