Swatch First Feature Award; Special Mention: Junior Jury Award - Filmmakers of the Present, Locarno International Film Festival 2025
In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.
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. She has also directed films for CBC Short Docs and Kino Lorber. In 2020, Sophy completed her Master’s at York University. 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. Her latest short film, IT’S WHAT EACH PERSON NEEDS is available on The New Yorker and MUBI. BLUE HERON is her feature debut.
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