diff --git a/core/modules/content_translation/tests/src/Kernel/ContentTranslationFieldSyncRevisionTest.php b/core/modules/content_translation/tests/src/Kernel/ContentTranslationFieldSyncRevisionTest.php
index e6fb01cbdf7..71260e8eca1 100644
--- a/core/modules/content_translation/tests/src/Kernel/ContentTranslationFieldSyncRevisionTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/content_translation/tests/src/Kernel/ContentTranslationFieldSyncRevisionTest.php
@@ -375,6 +375,84 @@ class ContentTranslationFieldSyncRevisionTest extends EntityKernelTestBase {
     $this->assertLatestRevisionFieldValues($entity_id, [26, 3, 3, 'Alt 3 EN', 'Alt 4 IT']);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Checks that file field synchronization works as expected.
+   */
+  public function testFileFieldSynchronization(): void {
+    $entity_type_id = 'entity_test_mulrev';
+    $file_field_name = 'file_field';
+
+    foreach ($this->getTestFiles('text') as $file) {
+      $entity = File::create((array) $file + ['status' => 1]);
+      $entity->save();
+    }
+
+    /** @var \Drupal\field\Entity\FieldStorageConfig $field_storage */
+    $field_storage_config = FieldStorageConfig::create([
+      'field_name' => $file_field_name,
+      'type' => 'file',
+      'entity_type' => $entity_type_id,
+      'cardinality' => 1,
+      'translatable' => 1,
+    ]);
+    $field_storage_config->save();
+
+    $field_config = FieldConfig::create([
+      'entity_type' => $entity_type_id,
+      'field_name' => $file_field_name,
+      'bundle' => $entity_type_id,
+      'label' => 'Synchronized file field',
+      'translatable' => 1,
+    ]);
+    $field_config->save();
+
+    $property_settings = [
+      'display' => 'display',
+      'description' => 'description',
+      'target_id' => 0,
+    ];
+    $field_config->setThirdPartySetting('content_translation', 'translation_sync', $property_settings);
+    $field_config->save();
+
+    /** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityInterface $entity */
+    $entity = EntityTestMulRev::create([
+      'uid' => 1,
+      'langcode' => 'en',
+      $file_field_name => [
+        'target_id' => 1,
+        'description' => 'Description EN',
+        'display' => 1,
+      ],
+    ]);
+    $entity->save();
+
+    $this->assertEquals(1, $entity->get($file_field_name)->target_id);
+    $this->assertEquals('Description EN', $entity->get($file_field_name)->description);
+    $this->assertEquals(1, $entity->get($file_field_name)->display);
+
+    // Create a translation with a different file, description and display
+    // values.
+    $it_translation = $entity->addTranslation('it', $entity->toArray());
+    $it_translation->get($file_field_name)->target_id = 2;
+    $it_translation->get($file_field_name)->description = 'Description IT';
+    $it_translation->get($file_field_name)->display = 0;
+    $metadata = $this->contentTranslationManager->getTranslationMetadata($it_translation);
+    $metadata->setSource('en');
+    $it_translation->save();
+
+    $it_entity = $entity->getTranslation('it');
+    $this->assertEquals(2, $it_entity->get($file_field_name)->target_id);
+    $this->assertEquals('Description IT', $it_entity->get($file_field_name)->description);
+    $this->assertEquals(0, $it_entity->get($file_field_name)->display);
+
+    // In the english entity the file should have changed, but the description
+    // and display should have remained the same.
+    $en_entity = $entity->getTranslation('en');
+    $this->assertEquals(2, $en_entity->get($file_field_name)->target_id);
+    $this->assertEquals('Description EN', $en_entity->get($file_field_name)->description);
+    $this->assertEquals(1, $en_entity->get($file_field_name)->display);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Tests changing the default language of an entity.
    */
diff --git a/core/modules/file/src/Plugin/Field/FieldType/FileItem.php b/core/modules/file/src/Plugin/Field/FieldType/FileItem.php
index 98c8f795ced..6dc17e520bf 100644
--- a/core/modules/file/src/Plugin/Field/FieldType/FileItem.php
+++ b/core/modules/file/src/Plugin/Field/FieldType/FileItem.php
@@ -33,7 +33,21 @@ use Drupal\file\Validation\FileValidatorSettingsTrait;
   default_widget: "file_generic",
   default_formatter: "file_default",
   list_class: FileFieldItemList::class,
-  constraints: ["ReferenceAccess" => [], "FileValidation" => []]
+  constraints: ["ReferenceAccess" => [], "FileValidation" => []],
+  column_groups: [
+    'target_id' => [
+      'label' => new TranslatableMarkup('File'),
+      'translatable' => TRUE,
+    ],
+    'display' => [
+      'label' => new TranslatableMarkup('Display'),
+      'translatable' => TRUE,
+    ],
+    'description' => [
+      'label' => new TranslatableMarkup('Description'),
+      'translatable' => TRUE,
+    ],
+  ],
 )]
 class FileItem extends EntityReferenceItem {