Sophie Hyde

No.

You do like self-identifying, you hypocrite.

Oh, that's a lot of pressure.

It's a film about someone played by Olivia Colman who takes their teenager to visit their gay grandfather in Amsterdam from Australia.

And that teenager decides they want to stay and live in Amsterdam with him and have a big queer life.

And

And Olivia's character isn't sure if she wants that, but doesn't really want to say no.

So it's a kind of intergenerational story about three members of a family and then kind of the extended family around them.

I always thought there was a story in my dad and he would have liked to have thought so as well.

It was actually just after he died, which was 2018, and I had been with him in the hospital room and had quite an amazing experience of talking to him about his life.

But I also went back to my own teenager life

and they were very young at the time, only 12 actually.

And they just started to like become really involved in like speaking publicly about their queerness.

And they were just starting to grapple with these ideas.

And my dad was a very out and eccentric gay man.

And I kind of, I honestly, I just longed to put them in a room together.

I just wished for them to be able to speak to each other.

And so that was the kind of impetus for the beginning of the film.

He's a grandparent and a grandchild talking about what it means to be queer.

And then I didn't know it would stay so kind of closely connected to our lives, you know, our family.