Blue Heron
Canada / 2025 / 90'
Plot
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family’s oldest child. Family ties, fragmented memories and mental health shape the exciting debut feature film by the Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker.
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Screenings
| 26/11/2025 | 19:00h | CINETECA |
Director
Sophy Romvari
Sophy Romvari is a Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker based in Toronto. Her critically-acclaimed short films have travelled the international festival circuit and earned her a reputation as a leading young talent. She has screened at TIFF, Hot Docs, Sheffield, and True/False, and has received a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image. She has also directed films for CBC Short Docs and Kino Lorber. In 2020, Sophy completed her Master’s at York University. Her thesis film Still Processing premiered at TIFF in September 2020, was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award, and was featured in a collection of Sophy’s eight short films on the Criterion Channel. Her latest short film, It 's what each person needs, is available on The New Yorker and MUBI. Blue Heron is her feature debut.
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