Community Screening Of Jimpa With LIVE Filmmaker & Cast Q&A
DIRECTOR: SOPHIE HYDE | AUSTRALIA | 2025
Melbourne Queer Film Festival is hosting an intimate community screening of landmark film, Jimpa, on Wednesday 13 May in partnership with Victorian Pride Centre.
The screening will be followed by an exclusive live virtual Q&A with Olivia Colman, Kate Box, Aud Mason-Hyde and Sophie Hyde.
Following MQFF’s Victorian premiere of Jimpa in November with multiple sell-out sessions – we’re delighted to bring you a special community screening of Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde’s moving depiction of integer-generational queer relationships. Referencing significant historical queer figures and experiences in Naarm, Jimpa is a modern queer Australian family story for the entire LGBTQIA+ community.
Enjoy an evening of queer-centred conversation with like-minded members of the local community at the Victorian Pride Centre, along with powerful performances of an Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman & Golden Globe winner John Lithgow.
Film rating: MA15+ film. Accesibility: Closed Captions
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 13 May 2026.
Time: Doors open 6:15pm, for a 7:00pm start.
Location: Victorian Pride Centre, 79-81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda VIC 3182.
Cost: $14 – $28 (plus booking fee)
Food/Beverages: A bar service will be available during the evening.
About Jimpa
From acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), JIMPA is an uplifting multi-generational family story starring award-winning favourites Olivia Colman & John Lithgow.
Hannah (Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, lovingly known as “Jimpa” (Lithgow). When Frances expresses a desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad, Hannah is forced to reconsider her parenting beliefs and the stories she has long told about her family. As Jimpa faces the difficulties of aging as a gay man in a generation that never expected to grow old and Frances grapples with the disappointment of heroes falling short of their ideals, Hannah learns to navigate the differing perspectives of her father and her child.
Told with empathy, humor, compassion, and joy, Jimpa celebrates the unique loves and challenges of a modern queer family across three generations.
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