Sophie Hyde’s new film “Jimpa,” which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, began as a deeply personal story about her experience as the child of a gay father and parent of a ...

Directed and co-written by Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s Sophie Hyde, Jimpa is a tale of wish fulfillment on multiple levels — often to its detriment. The first level is its plot, which follows an ...

Director and co-writer (with Matthew Cormack) Sophie Hyde takes inspiration from her own life as daughter of a gay man and mother of a trans nonbinary teenager to tell the moving story of an ...

"I understand the need to find yourself, find your family... I simply said: Frances, this is your grandpa, Jim. But he thought grandpa sounded too old so he gave himself a new name: Jimpa." Kismet ...

Kicking off the 2025 Sundance Film Festival with a winner already. I adore this film. I really connected with it, even if I'm not like anyone in it. Jimpa is the latest film written and directed by ...

John Lithgow and Olivia Colman in Jimpa. Credit: Image courtesy of Protagonist Pictures “Don’t hang onto him,” John Lithgow’s Jim tells his daughter, Hannah, played by Olivia Colman, about her dying ...

In Jimpa, a filmmaker must reconcile her feelings about her gay father — a passionate, larger-than-life figure who hasn’t always been easy to love. For Good Luck To You, Leo Grande director Sophie ...

After Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, a virtuoso showcase for Emma Thompson that was also a rare candid conversation about an older woman’s sexuality, Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde returns in Jimpa ...

Running time: 123 minutes. Not yet rated. Earnest sentimentality and a family casually yakking about sexual kinks make for strange bedfellows in “Jimpa,” an off-kilter dramedy that had its world ...

John Lithgow couldn’t wait to strip down for his latest role in “Jimpa.” When the 79-year-old actor learned he’d have to take off his clothes in the 2025 drama that premiered Thursday at the Sundance ...

Sophie Hyde’s latest centers on a filmmaker navigating the cross currents between her nonbinary teenager and her hedonistic gay father while working on a project about the end of her parents’ marriage ...