Jim Jarmusch14th feature, ”Father Mom Sister Brother“Brought“ Law ”and“ Paterson ”director to Venice Film Festival for just the second time – and inevitably in the controversy around the film’s distributor, Badly.
Mubi, who releases the Venice competition premiere in theaters on December 24, is facing external and internal counter -reaction due to Mubi Investor Sequoia’s tape to the Israeli defense industry. Streamer and the distributor accepted an investment of $ 100 million from a company that also supports Kela, a defense start founded in 2024 by Israeli intelligence veterans following the terrorist attacks on October 7. A list of Signing filmmaker And a letter from Mubi employees has urged the company to release the investor. Mubi CEO EFE CAKAREL released a statement earlier this month claims that the company’s relationship with the venture capital company is not involved in finance the war in Gaza.
Jarmusch was asked during the press conference “Father Mother Sister Brother” by Screen International’s Ben Dalton if he had spoken to the distributor about its financing structure, which has thrown a wave of negative press notice on Mubi all summer.
“Yes, I have talked to Mubi about it, and I have a very good relationship, especially with Jason Ropell on Mubi who called me immediately. He had not become aware when this relationship was made,” Jarmusch said. “My relationship with Mubi started a lot before that, and they were fantastic to work with on this movie. Of course, I was disappointed and quite worried by this relationship. Really, if you want to discuss it, you have to deal with Mubi about it. I’m not a spokesman. But yes, I was worried.”
He added, “I also have a distribution agreement with Mubi in some territories that I had entered before my knowledge of this. After saying that I have to say at a personal level that I am an independent filmmaker and I have taken money from different sources to be able to realize my films. I think that is as much as all companies are dirty and they start to analyze all these movie companies The movies are how I choose to wear things I would say, but one thing I don’t like – and you haven’t done it – is just mutating.
Israeli’s ongoing war against Gaza has already been a major focus on the Venice Film Festival. A march with thousands, who demanded an end to the genocide, came down in Venice Lido Saturday afternoon against the festival area after “Free Palestine” protests that were launched earlier at the beginning of this year’s biennial.
