Blue Heron

Closing Night | US Premiere

Sunday, April 12, 8:00 p.m. @ Vidiots Eagle Theatre
Q&A with writer/director Sophy Romvari and actress Amy Zimmer, moderated by Ash Cook

Followed by a reception in the Vidiots Eagle Theatre lobby bar.

Director: Sophy Romvari
Canada/Hungary, 2025, 90 min, DCP

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.

Sophy Romvari's deeply intimate portrait of a family coping with a challenging situation evokes the specific curiosity and disorientation of being a kid with sophistication, soul, and playfulness. It's transportative. Eylul Guven, the young actress at the center of this story, gives a performance so honest and relatable it could be mistaken for documentary—which is key to the film's unexpected elliptical structure. Just when the film proves itself to be an impressive but straightforward coming-of-age tale, it suddenly transforms, exploding and expanding the personal into something unexpected, ambitious, and intellectual. -SW

In English and Hungarian with English subtitles

Prior Screenings: 2025 Locarno Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival

Cast & Crew
Producers: Ryan Bobkin, Sara Wylie, Sophy Romvari, Gábor Osváth
Writer: Sophy Romvari
Director of Photography: Maya Bankovic, CSC
Production Designer: Victoria Furuya
Editor: Kurt Walker
Music Supervisor: Jody Colero, Amanda Clemens
Costume Designer: Maria Katarina
Post Production Supervisor: Éva Haraszin
Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer: Péter Benjámin Lukács

Distributor: Janus Films