In her astonishing and award-winning feature debut, director Sophy Romvari constructs a personal portrait of memory, childhood and family.
Set on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, Blue Heron follows eight - year - old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family as they attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy. Drawing on her own memories, filmmaker Sophy Romvari shapes a deeply personal portrait of childhood, family fractures, and the fragility of recollection.
"It’s a film so delicately textured that it is as though you can practically reach out and touch the grass of the family’s yard." Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap
"There is a pulsating ache at the heart of writer/director Sophy Romvari’s assured feature debut Blue Heron that hits with such precision, it could break you open from the inside." Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com