The Psychoanalysis and Cinema Seminar of ACF Belgium, Yves Deplesenaire, Maud Ferauge, and Nicolas Moyson, in partnership with Cinema Palace, will have the pleasure, after the screening of the film, of discussing Jim Jarmusch’s film Father Mother Sister Brother. 

Since his debut, Jim Jarmusch has explored the human condition in our contemporary world, offering a filmography that, not without humor and poetry, depicts ordinary life, the absurdity of the everyday, and chance encounters that bring together solitary individuals…
Awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, Father Mother Sister Brother, is structured like a musical piece in three movements. This triptych, composed of three distinct stories, portrays, in a Chekhovian atmosphere, relationships on the verge of nonexistence between generations in adulthood: a father and his two children, a mother and her two daughters, and finally, two orphans. Silence, unspoken words, and lies run through these three stories.
During the discussion following the screening, we will have the opportunity to pick out the gems contained in this episodic film, which will illuminate some of the themes present throughout Jim Jarmusch’s filmography.

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

Jim Jarmusch

US, 110', 2025, VO EN ST FR/NL

Synopsis : FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, the new film by Jim Jarmusch, brings together a stellar cast: Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Charlotte Rampling. This triptych explores the complex ties between adults and parents who have gradually grown apart through time and distance.

Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2025

Presentation of the Psychoanalysis and Cinema Seminar, an initiative of ACF-B

The Psychoanalysis and Cinema Seminar is made up of psychoanalytic practitioners who are also film enthusiasts, driven by the questions that works of art raise. Cinema and psychoanalysis emerged around the same time, and in both cases, it is a matter of watching and listening to a narrative made of gaps and absences—a story that does not reveal everything, where we question what confronts us. This seminar aims to be a work-in-progress on the questions posed by cinema. What do filmmakers teach us about the real at stake in their work, about the malaise of our era? What does psychoanalysis owe to Art? This is the guiding thread of the conversations we propose, in direct connection with what Lacan said in his homage to Marguerite Duras:
"always remember that the artist precedes the psychoanalyst."