A family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the eyes of the youngest child.
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Blue Heron (2025) follows eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungarian immigrant family as they settle on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, where their fresh start unravels through her eyes amid her older brother Jeremy's (Edik Beddoes) increasingly dangerous behavior.
Twenty years later, adult Sasha (Amy Zimmer) returns as a filmmaker to process family trauma, blending memory, fiction, and meta-cinema in a poignant portrait of grief and reconciliation.
Sophy Romvari's semi-autobiographical feature debut, written and directed after her TIFF-winning short Still ProcessingStill Processing, stars Ádám Tompa, Iringó Réti, and premiered at Locarno August 2025 then TIFF, earning acclaim for its aching precision.
Janus Films acquired U.S. rights for 2026 release post-festival run (90 minutes); it holds a 7.3/10 IMDb rating for evoking the blurred line between anger, regret, and childhood observation.