Jimpa
- Director: Sophie Hyde
- Writer: Matthew Cormack, Sophie Hyde
- Producer: Michael Agar, Ester Harding, Liam Heyen, Sophie Hyde, Niki Leskinen, Carly Maple, Bryan Mason, Aud Mason-Hyde, Martin Metz, Adrian Politowski, Marleen Slot, Cyna Strachan, Han van der Werff
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Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim — lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.
Sophie Hyde, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic for 52 Tuesdays (2014 Sundance Film Festival), 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. Reconnecting with Jimpa during a long working holiday, Hannah (Olivia Colman) navigates ambivalence toward her estranged father while Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) discovers the pleasures and perils of queer life in the big city. 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.—Matt Cornell
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Cast & Characters
Olivia Colman (as Hannah)
John Lithgow (as Jimpa)
Tilda Cobham-Hervey
Cody Fern
Eamon Farren (as Richard)
Kate Box
Daniel Henshall
Deborah Kennedy (as Katherine)
Romana Vrede (as Mirjam)
Hanna van Vliet (as Roosje, bartender)
Nicholas Brown (as Mr. Mason)
Melany Maximus (as Sexyland Dancer / Bartender)
Aarne Lehti (as Business Man)
Ani Sidzamba (as Young Mirjam)
Joe Romeo (as Male Student)
Jean Janssens (as Bis)
Laurine Lambert (as Waitress)
Aud Mason-Hyde (as Frances)
Zoë Love Smith (as Isa)
Toby Blome (as Dutch Waiter)
Hans Kesting (as Uri)
Arjan Ederveen
Rhemy Ashton (as Young Dede)
Jenna Sutch
Teun Stokkel (as Young Richard)