The 2025 New York Film Festival has selected Jim Jarmusch‘s Father Mother Sister Brother as its centerpiece film.
The Mubi release will make its North American premiere at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Oct. 3.
The film follows three groups of adult children, each in a different country, as they reunite and address aging or lost parents. Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik play siblings who check up on their reclusive father, played by Tom Waits, in rural New Jersey. Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett play sisters who reunite with their closed-off novelist mother, played by Charlotte Rampling, in Dublin. And twins played by Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat confront a family tragedy in Paris.
Father Mother Sister Brother is just the latest Jarmusch title to screen as part of the New York Film Festival. Past selections from the writer-director include Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson and Gimme Danger.
“I am so very proud of the long history of my work being presented at the NYFF and am now super honored that my newest film Father Mother Sister Brother has been selected for this year’s centerpiece,” Jarmusch said in a statement. “The NYFF, the chosen church of my religion, has provided many of my greatest inspirations and revelations in its continuing celebration of the deep and diverse beauty of cinema.”
NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim added, “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 work into one glorious triptych. 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.”
The NYFF previously announced that Luca Guadagnino’s Julia Roberts starrer After the Hunt, which also features Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, would be its 2025 opening night film.
The 63rd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, is set to run from Sept. 26-Oct. 13.