The feature film Jimpa that premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is screening at the MFA WQ Fall Focus event in Boston on Sunday December 7th at 2P. Jimpa starring Olivia Colman & John Lithgow is about filmmaker Hannah (Colman) & her nonbinary teen Frances (Aud Mason Hyde) who travel to Amsterdam to reconnect with their estranged father & grandfather Jimpa (Lithgow) as things unravel in unexpected ways. Frances’ desire to stay with Jimpa for a full year tests Hannah’s beliefs about parenting, identity & family. As tensions surface Jimpa weaves a tender, emotionally charged portrait of queer kinship, legacy & the fragile bonds between parents & children. Directed by Sophie Hyde Jumpa is a semi-autobiographical work from Hyde who stated, “Casting a version of yourself is not an easy task. It’s very tricky to do & so there’s a part of the story that’s incredibly sort of drawing on our real lives & then there’s a whole lot of fiction as well. Obviously there’s Jim & there’s also Aud who is my child & they’re a bit older than Frances, but there’s elements of the relationship between Hannah & Frances that definitely are in us.” Like Hyde Hannah’s a married film artist from Adelaide, the mother of a transgender, nonbinary teenager & the daughter of a father who came out gay when she was a child. I talked to Sophie Hyde & Aud Mason Hyde in this exclusive chat about their film Jimpa last summer at the Provincetown International Film Festival & their spin on our LGBTQ issues.
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