NYFF 2025: Father Mother Sister Brother Q & A with Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Adam Driver and more
Here's Adam Driver, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Jim Jarmusch, Vicky Krieps and Tom Waits attend the "Father Mother Sister Brother" Press Conference during the 63rd New York Film Festival at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater on October 03, 2025
Father Mother Sister Brother is a 2025 comedy drama anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.
Father Mother Sister Brother is a perceptive study in familial dynamics, a feature film carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three chapters all concern the relationships between adult children reconnecting or coming to terms with aging or lost parents, which take place in the present, and each in a different country. 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. 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 brings his worlds to life with the essential assistance of his collaborators, including two masterful cinematographers, Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, and the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves.
Father Mother Sister Brother opens on December 24 at Film at Lincoln Center.