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Directed by Sophy Romvari • 2025 • Canada, Hungary
Starring Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Iringó Réti

A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of a major new cinematic voice. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungarian Canadian family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from her eldest brother, Jeremy (Edik Beddoes). At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Audaciously layering the past and the present until they converge in a moment of devastating emotional clarity, BLUE HERON evokes the languid haze of a childhood summer and the hidden tensions rippling beneath it.