Jim Jarmusch is keeping it all in the family. The auteur reunites with a slew of his frequent collaborators for “Father Mother Sister Brother,” set to be released by MUBI. The film will first premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival in competition, Jarmusch’s first time in that section. The Cannes perennial premiered “Coffee and Cigarettes” out of competition in Venice in 2003. 

“Father Mother Sister Brother” is designed as a triptych, with the trio of stories all concerning the relationships between adult children, “their somewhat distant parent (or parents),” per the film’s synopsis, 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 U.S., “Mother” is in Dublin, Ireland, and “Sister Brother” is in Paris, France. Per any Jarmusch film, it’s a character study that blends melancholy and comedy.

Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun star in the film, written and directed by Jarmusch.

“‘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 said in a press statement. “Collaborations with the masterful cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves, and other frequent collaborators elevate what started as words on a page into a form of pure cinema.”

The project was announced in 2024; this is Jarmusch’s first feature film since 2019’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” which also starred his “Paterson” alum Driver. Blanchett previously led Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes,” too.

Jarmusch previously told The Guardian that he wrote “Father Mother Sister Brother” with a specific cast in mind, saying he had to “wrangle” the collaborators together for the production itself. “Actors are like wild animals that I have to somehow corral because they have so much going on. So, I’m trying to corral some incredible wild animals – I hope I can capture them,” Jarmusch said in 2023. “I’m a control freak in that I have to do it my own way. I have to choose all my own collaborators. I have to have final cut. I have to produce it through my own company. And as for the people financing the films, I allow them to give me notes on a rough cut but I always, contractually, have absolutely no obligation to use them.”

Elmes (“The Dead Don’t Die,” “Paterson”) and Le Saux (“Only Lovers Left Alive,” “Personal Shopper”) are the directors of photography. Production designers are Mark Friedberg (“Joker,” “Paterson”) and Marco Bittner-Rosser (“Only Lovers Left Alive,” “Tár”). Editing was led by Gonçalves (“I’m Still Here,” “Paterson”), with music by Jarmusch and Anika.

Jarmusch explained during the 2023 Overlook Film Festival (via The Playlist) that “Father Mother Sister Brother” almost had no music at all. “It’s a very subtle film; it’s very quiet,” Jarmusch said. “And I think music could move it too much one way — it’s a funny and sad film, right? It sort of has both woven in. I don’t know if I want to have music to add some other thing over it. It doesn’t really want it so far.”

“Father Mother Sister Brother” is produced by Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, and Attila Yücer. The film is produced and presented by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, MUBI, and Fremantle company The Apartment, with Jarmusch’s Badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema. In Ireland, Richard Bolger and Conor Barry at Hail Mary Pictures co-produced with financing provided by Fís Éireann and Screen Ireland. Cinema Inutile brought equity finance.

Cinéart will release the film in Benelux in collaboration with MUBI. The Match Factory is handling international sales. Gersh represented the North American rights. Jarmusch is represented by Bart Walker of The Gersh Agency and Victoria Cook and Hayden Goldblatt at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz.

Check out more first-look images from “Father Mother Sister Brother” below.