Thank you to Frank and Ducky Donath for sponsoring this film.
Sophy Romvari’s affecting and intelligent feature debut confirms her status as one of Canada’s most exceptional emerging filmmakers. Blue Heron is formally inventive and acutely personal, a re-creation of childhood joys embedded in a more troubling story of a family’s growing crisis.
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. Blue Heron 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.