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 ...

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 ...

Now with a trans teenager, Frances (played by the filmmaker’s trans nonbinary child Aud Mason-Hyde), who is exploring their own identity and budding sexuality, they take a trip to visit Jimpa ...

Sophie Hyde’s highly unorthodox family portrait pays tribute to her dad, who fought for gay rights but died before the filmmaker’s trans child could appreciate his pioneering personality.

In Jimpa, Frances, played by writer-director Sophie Hyde's child Aud Mason-Hyde, is confronted by this world head on as they accompany their parents, Hannah (Olivia Colman) and Harry (Daniel ...

Premiering Thursday at Sundance, “Jimpa” begins with Hannah and Frances talking about Jim. The former is doing so as part of a pitch about the film she wants to make about her father ...

Hannah plans to tell her father about the film when she and her impossibly perfect husband Harry (Daniel Henshall) take Frances to visit Jimpa, as they fondly call him. (If my ears didn’t ...

Sundance: Colman plays a filmmaker struggling to reconcile her resentment toward her gay father in Sophie Hyde's thinly rendered portrait of generational divides. “Jimpa” is a well-meaning ...

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 ...

In “Jimpa,” generations come together in a meditation on the LGBTQ+ experience. Directed by Sophie Hyde, the family drama follows Hannah (Olivia Colman) and her nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud ...

Made with love and acted with great empathy by a cast led by always dependable pros Olivia Colman and John Lithgow, Jimpa is nothing if not sincere. But to be brutally honest, it’s also kind of ...