“Father Mother Sister Brother” Wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother has won the Golden Lion at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Italy. The drama, led by Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps, and Cate Blanchett, follows three interconnected family stories told in Jarmusch’s restrained style of humor and reflection.

The Silver Lion went to Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, a documentary about the 2024 death of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza. The film drew the festival’s longest standing ovation at 22 minutes.

Chinese actress Xin Zhilei won Best Actress for Cai Shangjun’s The Sun Rises on Us All, becoming only the second mainland Chinese performer to claim the award since 1992. Italian actor Toni Servillo won Best Actor for Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, while Luna Wedler received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for her role in Silent Friend. Benny Safdie earned Best Director for The Smashing Machine, an MMA drama starring Dwayne Johnson.

Out of 4,580 submissions, 21 films made the main competition lineup, with 30 world premieres shown out of competition and 19 entries in the Orizzonti section. The jury, chaired by Alexander Payne, included Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, and Zhao Tao.

The closing ceremony featured a tribute to Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, who died on Thursday.

Other major screenings at the festival included Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, and Sofia Coppola’s Marc by Sofia.