After her short film Still Processing received widespread critical acclaim, Canadian writer and director Sophy Romvari has expanded on the same ideas in her feature debut, Blue Heron. Inspired by her own upbringing, the semi-autobiographical drama follows eight-year-old girl Sasha (Eylul Guven) in the late 1990s as she arrives in Vancouver Island from Hungary with her mother (Iringó Réti), father (Ádám Tompa) and three siblings. Her oldest brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) experiences severe mental health issues as the family try to settle into their new suburban home, and in the present-day we see an older Sasha (Amy Zimmer) reflect on this formative time as a 30-something filmmaker.

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