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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother has been set as the Centerpiece selection at this year’s New York Film Festival (NYFF), getting its North American premiere at the event on October 3.
Jarmusch and members of the film’s cast will be in attendance for the screening at Alice Tully Hall during the 63rd NYFF (September 26 – October 13), presented by Film at Lincoln Center.
The film – confirmed earlier this week for the competition at next month’s Venice Film Festival – is structured in three chapters, each taking place in a different country but each dealing relationships between adult children and aging or lost parents. The cast includes Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Vicky Krieps, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.
Jarmusch’s collaborators on the project include cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux and editor Affonso Gonçalves.
Mubi has all rights to the film for North America, Latin America, the UK, Ireland, Turkey, India and Benelux (where it will release in collaboration with Cineart). The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Jarmusch has a long association with the NYFF: his Stranger Than Paradise screened at the event in 1984 and since then Mystery Train, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson and Gimme Danger have all be seen at the festival.
Jarmusch commented: “I am so very proud of the long history of my work being presented at the NYFF and am now super honoured that my newest film Father Mother Sister Brother has been selected for this year’s Centerpiece. 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 and selection committee chair 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 honoured to present it as our Centerpiece selection this year.”
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