Father Mother Sister Brother

He is a film director, writer, musician, producer, and artist. A prominent figure in independent cinema, his films include ‘Permanent Vacation’ (1980), ‘Stranger than Paradise’ (1984, Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival), ‘Down by Law’ (1986), ‘Mystery Train’ (1989), ‘Night on Earth’ (1991), ‘Dead Man’ (1995, awarded at the European Film Awards), ‘Year of the Horse’ (1997), ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ (1999), ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ (2003), ‘Broken Flowers’ (2005, Cannes’ Grand Prize of the Jury), ‘The Limits of Control’ (2009), ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013), ‘Paterson’ (2016), ‘Gimme Danger’ (2016), ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ (2019), and the short film ‘Int. Trailer. Night.’ (2002). His work first reached Spanish cinemas through Seminci, when in 1982 he himself presented his first feature film in Valladolid, as part of the ‘American Independent Cinema’ retrospective. His latest feature film, ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ (2025), won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.