Blue Heron
- Canada, Hungary
- 2025
- 90'
- On Air
In the late 1990s, a family of Hungarian and Canadian origin moves to Vancouver Island. Seen through the eyes of the youngest daughter Sasha, their everyday life is haunted by disturbing events, as one of the family members plunges into a crisis that jeopardises the semblance of harmony they seem to enjoy. In a series of retrospect sequences, we see the protagonists as they try to confront the painful past. In the film by Sophy Romvari, the division line between fiction and document is blurred, delivering an intimate and stylistically exquisite story about grief, memory, and love.
- Directed by: Sophy Romvari
- Screenplay: Sophy Romvari
- Photography: Maya Bankovic
- Music: Blitz//Berlin
- Editing: Kurt Walker
- Cast: Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Ádám Tompa, Iringó Réti
A film director of Canadian and Hungarian origin living in Toronto. Her short films were widely recognised at the most prestigious film festivals, including TIFF, Hot Docs, Sheffield, and True/False. There was also a retrospective dedicated to her film work held in 2019, at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), in New York. In 2020, she completed master’s degree at York University. Her diploma film ‘Still Processing’ had its première at the Toronto IFF, and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. It was also available on the Criterion Channel network. Another of her short films – ‘It’s What Each Person Needs’ (2022) – is available for watching via The New Yorker and MUBI platforms. ‘Blue Heron’ is her full feature début.
