‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Trailer – Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett Star in Venice Winning Family Drama

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is a tender, introspective family drama spanning continents and generations. The film follows three interconnected stories of estranged relatives reuniting across New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris.

The ensemble cast includes Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore, and Luka Sabbat.

Father Mother Sister Brother made its world premiere in competition at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, where it won the festival’s top honor, the Golden Lion.

Following Venice, the film screened as the Centerpiece Selection at the 2025 New York Film Festival, and is scheduled for a U.S. theatrical release on December 24, 2025, through MUBI, with a streaming debut set for early 2026.

Father Mother Sister Brother is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country. Father is set in the Northeast US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France.

The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental – a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.

“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. Collaborations with the masterful cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves and other frequent collaborators elevate what started as words on a page into a form of pure cinema.” said Jim Jarmusch.

In their review, The Guardian lauded the film, grading it 4 of 5 stars, writing, “You might sit through this film waiting for a crisis or a confrontation: some explosion of temper or passionate demand for honesty. None will arrive. Basically, there is a contentment and calm here, an acceptance and a Zen simplicity that is a cleansing of the moviegoing palate, or perhaps the fiction-consuming palate in general. It is a film to savour.”