The Prize-Winning Feature Debut from Canadian-Hungarian Filmmaker Sophy Romvari
Opens April 17th in NYC & April 24 in LA
Nationwide Expansion in May
Dir: Sophy Romvari | 90 min | Canada, Hungary | 2025
Official Selection:
Locarno Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London,
San Sebastian Film Festival
Winner: Swatch First Feature Award, Junior Jury Award Locarno Film Festival
Best Canadian Discovery Award, TIFF
Synopsis: In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.
About the Director: Sophy Romvari is a Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker based in Toronto. Her critically acclaimed short films have travelled the international festival circuit and were featured in a collection on the Criterion Channel, including Still Processing which was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. Her latest short film It’s What Each Person Needs is available on The New Yorker and MUBI. Blue Heron is her feature debut.
“[A] masterpiece… Overpoweringly moving.”
—Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“[A] shattering memory piece… [Romvari] builds on her celebrated short work in a complex, sure-handed drama that deftly weaves documentary elements into a raw fictionalization of her own childhood.”
—Guy Lodge, Variety
“May be the most emotionally devastating film of the year — and also perhaps
the most comforting.”
—Josh Slater-Williams, Indiewire
“Riveting… A film you can’t shake your way free of once it has you in its grasp and
wouldn’t ever want to.”
—Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap
“Hits with such precision, it could break you open from the inside.”
—Robert Daniels, Roger Ebert.com
Source: Janus Films
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