Jimpa

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Jimpa

2025

2h 3m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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Film director Hannah takes her non-binary teenager Frances to Amsterdam to visit their beloved gay grandfather Jim (Jim-pa). But Frances' desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad means Hannah is forced to re-consider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past. An uplifting, multi-generational Queer story.

Nicolas Rapold

Financial Times

Hyde here has a frustrating tendency towards pocket-guide explanations of identity and sexuality, and this diligent verbiage dampens the sparks of perception and discovery that Colman especially is so skilled at bringing out.

Feb 4, 2025

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Johnny Oleksinski

New York Post

For a film that’s very much about connection, it completely fails to connect.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 27, 2025

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Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

While this film is about finding your identity, Hyde, unfortunately, doesn’t allow for that component to breathe without choking it with saccharine scenes of song and dance.

Jan 26, 2025

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Alex Billington

FirstShowing.net

It's so beautifully open, tender, and encouraging – it's the comfort cinema we need more of now.

Rated: 8/10

Feb 9, 2025

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Siddhant Adlakha

Mashable

Jimpa turns queerness — as identity, history, and lived experience — into texture, but texture alone... A painfully languid work that merely gestures toward real drama.

Feb 3, 2025

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Fred Topel

United Press International

Desperately needs edits and focus. As filmmakers' autobiographical films go, Jimpa is no The Fabelmans.

Jan 31, 2025

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Sophie Hyde

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Synopsis

Film director Hannah takes her non-binary teenager Frances to Amsterdam to visit their beloved gay grandfather Jim (Jim-pa). But Frances' desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad means Hannah is forced to re-consider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past. An uplifting, multi-generational Queer story.

Director: Sophie Hyde
Producer: Liam Heyen, Sophie Hyde, Bryan Mason, Marleen Slot
Screenwriter: Matthew Cormack, Sophie Hyde
Production Co: Closer Productions, Mad Ones Films
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Runtime: 2h 3m