Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother will take its North American bow as the Centerpiece Selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival, screening at Alice Tully Hall on October 3 with Jarmusch and members of the cast in attendance.
The Mubi film will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which kicks off in late August.
The study in familial dynamics is constructed in the form of a triptych with each chapter concerning the relationships between adult children reconnecting or coming to terms with aging or lost parents. Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Vicky Krieps, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat star.
The stories are set in present day, each in a different country. Siblings Jeff and Emily (Driver and Bialik) check up 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.
Jarmusch worked with cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux and editor Affonso Gonçalves on a film the NYFF calls carefully constructed and quiet, one that allows small details to accumulate.
“I am so very proud of the long history of my work being presented at the NYFF,” said Jarmusch, calling the festival “the chosen church of my religion” that “has provided many of my greatest inspirations and revelations in its continuing celebration of the deep and diverse beauty of cinema.” His Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson and Gimme Danger all screened at the fest. Other key works include Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Broken Flowers, which took Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
A writer, musician, producer and artist as well, Jarmusch designed the 61st New York Film Festival official poster in 2023. He records and performs music with his band SQÜRL as well as with the lutenist Jozef Van Wissem. His book Some Collages was published by Anthology Editions in 2021.
“Jim Jarmusch’s new movie is not just one of his very best, it distills everything we have come to love and value about this singular filmmaker’s world,” said NYFF Artistic Director and chair of the Main Slate selection committee Dennis Lim. “Father Mother Sister Brother is wise, generous, slyly funny, and enormously moving, and we are honored to present it as our Centerpiece selection this year.”
NYFF63 runs September 26 through October 13 put on by nonprofit Film at Lincoln Center with curated offerings across the Main Slate, Spotlight, Currents, Revivals and Talks. It opens with Luca Guadagnino‘s After The Hunt starring Julia Roberts.
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