In the late 1990s, a Canadian-Hungarian family moves into a new home on Vancouver Island. However, their new beginning is disrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child. In this award winning film by Hungarian-Canadian director Sophy Romvari, the family dynamics and internal relationships are revealed from the perspective of the youngest child, Sasha.

Q&A with director Sophy Romvari after the screening.

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Locarno Film Festival 2025 - Swatch First Feature Award

Sophy Romvari is a Canadian filmmaker with Hungarian roots, currently based in Toronto. In 2017, her short Pumpkin Movie premiered at True/False, later playing Hot Docs and Sheffield. Her thesis film Still Processing premiered at TIFF in September 2020 before touring festivals across the world and winning multiple awards. Still Processing premiered online through MUBI and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. A retrospective of 8 of her short films was made available on the Criterion Channel from 2022-2025. Her feature debut Blue Heron had its world premiere at Locarno where it won the Swatch First Feature award. It had its North American Premiere at TIFF in the Centrepiece section where it was awarded the Best Canadian Discovery Award.

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Pumpkin Movie (2017)
Norman Norman (2018)
Still processing (2020)

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Director: Sophy Romvari
Cast: Eylul Guven, Iringó Réti, Ádám Tompa, Edik Beddoes
Cinematography: Maya Bankovic
Screenwriter: Sophy Romvari
Producer: Ryan Bobkin, Sara Wylie, Gábor Osváth, Sophy Romvari
Editor: Kurt Walker
Music: Amanda Clemens
Hungarian Distributor: Mozinet
Colour: colour
min: 90 mins

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