Jimpa

Sophie Hyde, award-winning director of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, 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.

Hannah (Academy Award winner Olivia Colman) takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim — lovingly known as Jimpa. Hannah navigates her ambivalence towards her estranged father, while Frances discovers the pleasures and perils of queer life in the big city, ultimately deciding to live abroad with Jimpa for another year. Frances’ desire to stay on with Jimpa forces Hannah to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.

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. With warmth, humour and joy, Jimpa reminds us that, in every family, there are stories that don't add up. 

Screening from February 19 at Luna Leederville, Luna on SX, and the Windsor.