Jim Jarmusch’ FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER will have its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. The festival runs from 27 August to 6 September.

The film’s runtime is 110 minutes. It is slated for 7 January 2026 release in France.

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

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Cate, Charlotte Rampling, and Vicky Krieps are in the ‘Mother’ section set in Dublin.

Jim Jarmusch is keeping it all in the family. The auteur reunites with a slew of his frequent collaborators for “Father Mother Sister Brother,” set to be released by MUBI. The film will first premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival in competition, Jarmusch’s first time in that section. The Cannes perennial premiered “Coffee and Cigarettes” out of competition in Venice in 2003.

“Father Mother Sister Brother” is designed as a triptych, with the trio of stories all concerning the relationships between adult children, “their somewhat distant parent (or parents),” per the film’s synopsis, 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 U.S., “Mother” is in Dublin, Ireland, and “Sister Brother” is in Paris, France. Per any Jarmusch film, it’s a character study that blends melancholy and comedy.

“‘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,” Jarmusch said in a press statement. “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.”

Jarmusch previously told The Guardian that he wrote “Father Mother Sister Brother” with a specific cast in mind, saying he had to “wrangle” the collaborators together for the production itself. “Actors are like wild animals that I have to somehow corral because they have so much going on. So, I’m trying to corral some incredible wild animals – I hope I can capture them,” Jarmusch said in 2023. “I’m a control freak in that I have to do it my own way. I have to choose all my own collaborators. I have to have final cut. I have to produce it through my own company. And as for the people financing the films, I allow them to give me notes on a rough cut but I always, contractually, have absolutely no obligation to use them.”

Jim Jarmusch's eagerly-anticipated new film FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER will receive its world premiere in competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore,… pic.twitter.com/OolzDHpGo9

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