Official Trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Film
by Alex Billington
October 9, 2025
Source: YouTube
“It’s like they say: you can choose your friends, your lovers, but you can’t choose your family.” Mubi has debuted their official trailer for the film titled Father Mother Sister Brother, the new Jim Jarmusch film that has been in the works for years. It premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, where it strangely won the Golden Lion award, and also played at NYFF. It will play in limited theaters starting in December later this year. A new ensemble comedy feature a huge cast of characters – this is a triptych with segments set in the US, France, Ireland. Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents – a mom, dad, & brother / sister. A series of character studies: quiet, observational and non-judgemental — a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun. Despite this solid cast, this is one of my least favorite films of the year. Excruciatingly boring and entirely pointless – don’t think it deserves any awards or anyone’s attention. But that’s just my own opinion.
Here’s the main trailer (+ poster) for Jim Jarmusch’s film Father Mother Sister Brother, via YouTube:
You can watch the teaser trailer for Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother right here for the first look.
Father Mother Sister Brother is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The 3 stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), 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 US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Bother in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental – a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy. Father Mother Sister Brother is written and directed by acclaimed American indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, director of many great films including Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, The Limits of Control, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, Gimme Danger, and The Dead Don’t Die previously. Produced by Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, and Atilla Salih Yücer. This is premiering at the 2025 Venice Film Festival underway now. Mubi opens Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother in select US theaters starting on December 24th, 2025 late this year. How does that look?