Blue Heron (Egy nyár emléke): dir Sophy Romvari (2025)

A deeply personal portrait of childhood, family fractures, and the fragility of recollection from award-winning filmmaker Sophy Romvari, who drew on her own experiences for her feature debut – a deeply personal portrait of childhood, family fractures, and the fragility of recollection. It’s a singular coming-of-age story, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungarian Canadian family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but they struggle to deal with the increasingly dangerous behavioural issues of her older brother, Jeremy (Edik Beddoes). Though Sasha overhears snatches of conversations – a distressed telephone call, a meeting with a social worker – she never fully understands what’s happening around her. Perhaps she never will …

Presented by Hind Mezaina’s Culturist Film Club.