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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival just days after Trump clarified his Make America Great Again agenda, Sophie Hyde's "Jimpa" is a film about progress, not going back. Inspired by lessons of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...