Blue Heron

Memories, fantasy, and reality blur in Sophy Romvari’s Locarno-awarded, bittersweet and contemplative coming-of-age about love, guilt, and all that was never said.

It’s the late 1990s, and eight-year-old Sasha has just moved with her family to a new house on Vancouver Island. Having emigrated from Hungary to Canada, her parents are trying to build safety and stability in a new country, but family life is shaped by something unspoken, a strange absence, and an older brother whose self-destructive behavior grows increasingly impossible to ignore. In her feature debut, Sophy Romvari crafts deeply personal cinema: a poetic, formally assured exploration of how fragmented, incomplete, and distorted memories shape who we become.