Friday June 19
Blue Heron is a 2025 drama film written and directed by Sophy Romvari. Described as “semi-autobiographical,” the film is based in part on Romvari’s own childhood and her previous short film Still Processing. The film stars Eylul Guven as Sasha, the eight-year-old daughter of a Hungarian immigrant family who relocate to Vancouver Island in the late 1990s while their oldest son Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) displays increasingly dangerous behavioural issues in their new environment. The cast also includes Ádám Tompa and Iringó Réti as Sasha’s parents, Liam Serg and Preston Drabble as Sasha’s brothers, and Amy Zimmer as Adult Sasha.
The film, Romvari’s feature-length film debut, received production funding from both Telefilm Canada and the National Film Institute Hungary, and entered production in 2024.
After winning accolades at international film festivals such as TIFF and Locarno, the film was released theatrically in the United States by Janus Films.
