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Greece\u2019s premier film event, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, opened its 2025 edition \u2014\u00a0the 66th annual festival to be held in the country\u2019s bustling second city \u2014\u00a0last night, with a screening of Jim Jarmusch\u2019s latest Father Mother Sister Brother.<\/p>\n
Jarmusch wasn\u2019t in attendance at last night\u2019s screening, but he did send a video note. The screening was instead introduced by Indya Moore, who stars in the Golden Lion winner alongside Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Sarah Greene, Luka Sabbat, and Fran\u00e7oise Lebrun.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n The film\u2019s producer, Atilla Salih Y\u00fccer, was also in attendance alongside DoP Frederick Elmes, a veteran Jarmusch and David Lynch collaborator, and costume designer Catherine George. Both Elmes and George will host masterclass sessions for festival audiences during their time in Greece.<\/p>\n \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother is a really important film because it makes you think about fathers, sisters, mothers, and brothers,\u201d Moore began as she introduced the film.<\/p>\n \u201cThese past three years, we have witnessed an atrocity that we thought we would never see happen to fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers. And I grieve with the entirety of our human diaspora as we spiral into some mysterious space of self-destruction. But it\u2019s film and TV and storytelling in general that help us remember the ways that we are not just individuals, but we exist as a collective. And that\u2019s why when we listen to each other\u2019s love and grief and joy, we think about our own.\u201d<\/p>\n Moore continued to say that \u201cwe are all reflections of one another\u201d and that the safety of our collective futures relies on human beings remembering that \u201cevery single person\u2019s experience is a reflection of everyone else\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf we don\u2019t keep that in mind, we might lose the opportunity to continue our love and joy and creation of families on this planet earth,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n Moore ended by asking viewers in the room to \u201cthink about not only your immediate families, but think about everyone else\u2019s with the same level of regard we think about ourselves\u201d as they watched the film.<\/p>\n Father Mother Sister Brother tells the story of estranged siblings who reunite after years apart and are forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.<\/p>\n In a review out of Venice, where the film won the Golden Lion, Deadline\u2019s Damon Wise called the movie \u201can elevated cringe comedy<\/a>\u201d that harkens back to Jarmusch\u2019s earlier work of the 1980s and \u201990s.<\/p>\n \u201cCompared to 2005\u2019s Broken Flowers, this is a wilfully obscure step back to his deadpan, experimental roots, a gentle, almost deliberately un-film that is best not viewed in too much proximity to the witching hour,\u201d Wise wrote.<\/p>\n The 2025 Thessaloniki International Film Festival runs until November 9.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greece\u2019s premier film event, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, opened its 2025 edition \u2014\u00a0the 66th annual festival to be held in the country\u2019s bustling second city \u2014\u00a0last night, with a screening of Jim Jarmusch\u2019s latest Father Mother Sister Brother. Jarmusch wasn\u2019t in attendance at last night\u2019s screening, but he did send a video note. 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