Swatch First Feature Award; Special Mention: Junior Jury Award - Filmmakers Of The Present, Locarno International Film Festival 2025
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. As they settle in, the younger siblings are equally enchanted with the surrounding nature and the rudimentary paint programs on their father’s PC. But Jeremy, the oldest child, grows increasingly withdrawn as he busies himself hand-drawing elaborate maps of fantasy realms. As his erratic behaviour escalates, his family are gripped by a sense of powerlessness.
Sophy Romvari is a Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker based in Toronto. Her critically-acclaimed short films have travelled the international festival circuit and earned her a reputation as a leading young talent. She has screened at TIFF, Hot Docs, Sheffield, and True/False, and has received a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image. Her thesis film Still Processing premiered at TIFF in September 2020, was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award, and was featured in a collection of Sophy’s eight short films on the Criterion Channel. BLUE HERON is her feature debut.
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