Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Jimpa lovingly follows in the tradition of artwork about fathers who came out of the closet

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par Catherine Freyne, Senior Producer, Impact Studios UTS, University of Technology Sydney

Jimpa is an emotionally nuanced family drama by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde.

“Jimpa” is the family nickname for flamboyant and provocative patriarch, Jim (John Lithgow). Born in the early 1950s, Jim came out as gay to his wife Katherine (Deborah Kennedy) in the late 1970s when their youngest child, Hannah, was a baby.

Instead of separating, Jim and Katherine improvised new rules for their marriage, raising their two daughters together for a decade, until Jim left the family home in Adelaide in search of wider social and professional horizons.

Now,…

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