Father Mother Sister Brother
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Winner of the Golden Lion, 2025 Venice International Film Festival
A feature film in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch was introduced to cinema by his mother, who would drop him off at the local movie theater while she went shopping. Influenced by Antonioni, Mizoguchi, and Ozu, whom he discovered at the Cinémathèque française, he enrolled in New York University to study cinema. His graduation film, Permanent Vacation, was featured in numerous festivals in 1980. The characteristics that would define Jarmusch's style and screenplays were already there: disillusioned dandyism of anti-heroes, work in asceticism, penchant for outsiders, tendency to portray a strange, offbeat daily life. He then went on to direct films such as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), winner of the Caméra d’or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, Down by Law (1986), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Broken Flowers (2005), winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016).
Photo: Véro Boncompagni | Collections de la Cinémathèque québécoise
