Film: Blue Heron (Cert: CLUB)

Film: Blue Heron (Cert: CLUB)

About the film

Vancouver Island in the 1990s. Eight-year-old Sasha’s parents have moved their family fromHungary to Canada. As Sasha and her siblings enjoy the new environment, their parentshave become increasingly concerned about the unpredictable behaviour of their eldest sonJeremy. As the parents desperately try to help their troubled son, Sasha struggles tounderstand what’s unfolding around her - an uncertainty she will revisit as an adult when sheworks on a deeply personal filmmaking project.This extraordinary film from Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari is a quietly devastatingreckoning with a family’s traumatic past. Using several inventive structural and narrativedevices,Blue Heronemerges as one of the most accomplished and moving feature debutsof recent times.

Festivals:

Locarno Film Festival 2025

Toronto Film Festival 2025

Awards:

Winner - First Feature Award, Locarno Film Festival 2025

Winner - Best Canadian Discovery, Toronto Film Festival 2025

‘Blue Heron juggles painful memoir and self-reflexive film-making with remarkable assurance... A surgically precise and poignant exploration of how families mythologise and editorialise the pain away.’

★★★★ Tara Brady, The Irish Times

‘Occasionally, a talent arrives fully formed, and the Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari is one such phenomenon... [She is] already effortlessly fluent in the language of cinema’

Wendy Ide, The Observer

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