Family Portrait

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Family Portrait

Released Jun 28, 2024

1h 18m

Holiday

Drama

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Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a family on an idle morning when they have planned a group picture. After the mother vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her and gather her sprawling family, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition.

Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

It’s a foreboding film, a drama that recreates the sense that something bad is going to happen or may have happened already.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 14, 2024

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Carlos Aguilar

Variety

While free-floating and airy in its construction, the film’s deceiving familiarity slowly erodes, morphing into an unsettling, formally astute brain-tickler

Jun 28, 2024

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William Repass

Slant Magazine

Family Portrait stands out for its profound mistrust, not just of images but of the sense of sight altogether.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 24, 2024

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Will Bjarnar

Geek Vibes Nation

The film Kerr has on her hands is hardly one that can be codified beneath the banner of a specific genre. There’s mystery, sure, and it’s all incredibly dramatic, but there’s plenty of horror-adjacent traits to be found here, too.

Rated: 6.5/10

Jul 19, 2025

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Kate Sánchez

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

Family Portrait is a smart film. The uncertainty of the film’s ending will either resonate with you or it won’t. You’ll fill the emptiness with your experience, or you’ll just leave it hollow. It’s really up to you.

Rated: 8/10

Aug 17, 2024

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Zita Short

InSession Film

This playful, totally unfettered quality extends to Kerr's morally ambiguous, occasionally discomfiting consideration of the natural landscape that surrounds the family and the effect that it has on their behavior.

Rated: B+

Aug 16, 2024

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Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a family on an idle morning when they have planned a group picture. After the mother vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her and gather her sprawling family, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition.

Director: Lucy Kerr
Producer: Megan Pickrell, Frederic Winkler
Screenwriter: Lucy Kerr, Karlis Bergs
Distributor: Factory 25
Production Co: Insufficient Funds, Conjuring Productions
Genre: Holiday, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 28, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 18m