Friday, March 13 / 6:30 pm / ByTowne Cinema

Program: Same Time Next Year, Jimpa

Guests: Anushay Sheikh (Same Time Next Year)

Feature presentation \

Filmmaker Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, lovingly known as “Jimpa” (John Lithgow in a performance of a lifetime). 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. Inspired by her own experiences as part of a queer family, this intimate, authentic film from acclaimed filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) is her most personal story yet. Told with empathy, humor, compassion, and joy, Jimpa celebrates, with humour and compassion, the unique loves and challenges of a modern queer family across three generations.  

Short film \

Same Time Next Year

2025 / 8 minutes / Ontario
Director: Anushay Sheikh
Language: English, Urdu, Arabic
Subtitles: English

Expecting another uneventful Jummah, Safa finds herself trapped with her overbearing family and an angry ex.