Olivia Colman and John Lithgow can only carry Sophie Hyde's well-intentioned semi-autobiographical Sundance drama 'Jimpa' so far

If I could work with the queer community and trans people on every film, I’d have the happiest life,” the Oscar winner tells Vanity Fair. “Also, I learned more about myself.”

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.

Deadline's Baz Bamigboye writes that John Lithgow is extraordinary as he bares his soul in ‘Jimpa,’ which opened the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

How do you capture a life? After all, there is nothing more breathtakingly vast than an existence full of joy, pain, pleasure and agony. Doing so is an immense undertaking that requires honesty and care in equal measure as we must look deeply at someone to expose all of what made them who they are without also hiding all of what can be many rough edges.