Film · Sun 15 Nov 2026, Sun 5pm & 8pm · Mon 6.30pm
Blue Heron
First Feature Award, Locarno 2025
In English and Hungarian with English subtitles
Vancouver Island in the 1990s. Eight-year-old Sasha’s parents have moved their family from Hungary to Canada. As Sasha and her siblings enjoy the new environment, their parents have become increasingly concerned about the unpredictable behaviour of their eldest son Jeremy. As the parents desperately try to help their troubled son, Sasha struggles to understand what’s unfolding around her.
★★★★ “Blue Heron juggles painful memoir and self-reflexive film-making with remarkable assurance… A surgically precise and poignant exploration of how families mythologise and editorialise the pain away.” — Tara Brady, The Irish Times
“Occasionally, a talent arrives fully formed, and the Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari is one such phenomenon… [She is] already effortlessly fluent in the language of cinema.” — Wendy Ide, The Observer
Preceded by the short
WildKind 7 min
<p>A beautifully painted, poetic journey of hope and healing, WildKind brings together three generations of women, voiced in English, Irish and Arabic, in a universal call to nurture a life “wild and kind”.</p>