Indie director Jim Jarmusch took home the top prize for his film Father Mother Sister Brother, at the 2025 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony in Venice, Italy, on Saturday. Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP VENICE, Italy — “Father Mother Sister Brother,” Jim Jarmusch’s quietly humorous relationship triptych, won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. …
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Father Mother Sister Brother, the latest feature from veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, launched this evening at the Venice Film Festival. Starring are Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun in the story of estranged siblings who reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and …
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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key. A triptych built around a series of aggressively unremarkable interactions, it feels like a film that the director might have made while waiting to make a different, bigger film. It takes place in three different cities, and at times feels like …
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Jim Jarmusch was put on the spot about his feelings over distributor Mubi’s controversial ongoing relationship with Silicon Valley-based private equity firm Sequoia Capital at the press conference for his Venice Golden Lion contender Father Mother Sister Brother on Sunday. The U.S. director is among hundreds of filmmakers to have signed an open letter calling on the company to hand …
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Jim Jarmusch has added his voice to the growing backlash against Mubi after the arthouse distributor took on an investor with close ties to the Israeli military earlier this year. Mubi co-produced the director’s latest movie “Father Mother Sister Brother,” which premieres on Sunday at the Venice Film Festival. Criticism toward Mubi has been mounting since the company announced a …
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Venice Film Festival has unveiled a monster lineup for its 2025 edition, including world premieres of new features from Jim Jarmusch, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Noah Baumbach. The festival is set to open with Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, before a slate that includes Jarmusch’s comedy-drama Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits; Lanthimos’ sci-fi Bugonia, with …
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