In Jimpa , Olivia Colman plays an Australian filmmaker, Hannah, determined to make an autobiographical drama “without conflict”. Everyone around her is (rightfully) suspicious. Her father, Jim ( John Lithgow ), came out as gay after she was born and chose to stay with the family to co-parent, only to then leave Adelaide around a decade later, feeling stifled by the culture, and wanting to pursue a career as an LGBTQ+ politician and AIDS advocate in Amsterdam.

Hannah wants to make a film that celebrates what she views as a necessary act of self-liberation, even if her voice wavers when she adds it’s also about a “daughter learning not to need her father so much”.…