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2025 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim — lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.

Sophie Hyde, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic for 52 Tuesdays (2014 Sundance Film Festival), returns with an expansive family portrait centered on Jimpa (John Lithgow), an aging, hedonistic patriarch living loud and proud in Amsterdam’s vibrant gay community. Reconnecting with Jimpa during a long working holiday, Hannah (Olivia Colman) navigates ambivalence toward her estranged father while Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) discovers the pleasures and perils of queer life in the big city. Co-written by Hyde and Matthew Cormack (52 Tuesdays), Jimpa is a loving and insightful examination of intergenerational tensions within the LGBTQ+ community and the complex and contradictory attachments that form between family, friends, lovers, and comrades. Lithgow breathes messy life into the mercurial but bighearted Jimpa, complementing Colman’s moving turn as his weary yet loving daughter.—Matt Cornell

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This film contains mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages.

This film contains strobe effects.

Screening Details

Section: Premieres
Film Type: International Narrative Feature
Country: Australia
Language: English
Run Time: 123 min.

Credits

Casting Director
- Nikki Barrett
- Susanne Groen
Director of Photography
- Matthew Chuang
Actor
Screenwriter
- Matthew Cormack
- Sophie Hyde
Sound Designer
- Steve Fanagan
Producer
Director
- Sophie Hyde
Editor
- Bryan Mason
Production Designer
- Bethany Ryan
Co-Producer
- Cyna Strachan
Composer
- Nick Ward

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