Blue Heron

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning writer and director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it. Fascinating, moving and quietly groundbreaking, Blue Heron reveals the Toronto-based Romvari as one of Canada’s most extraordinarily gifted new filmmakers. Winner, Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Canadian Film. (90 min.)

“An unexpected triumph… Masterful, transcendent and overpoweringly moving.”            -Nick Schager, The Daily Beast