Worldwide movie gross sales company MoreThan Movies has picked up rights to Sophy Romvari’s characteristic debut “Blue Heron” forward of its world premiere as a part of the Filmmakers of the Current part on the Locarno Movie Pageant (August 6-16).
“Blue Heron” is ready within the late Nineties as eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant household relocate to a brand new residence on Canada’s Vancouver Island. Their recent begin is interrupted by more and more harmful behaviour from Jeremy, the household’s oldest youngster. Forged consists of Eylul Guven as Sasha, in addition to Iringó Réti, Ádám Tompa, Edik Beddoes, Amy Zimmer, Liam Serg and Preston Drabble.
In her director’s assertion, Romvari says that, along with her characteristic, she needed to “push towards what I really feel is an enchanting limitation of fiction: its imperfect skill to depict private recollections. I’m most excited by the design of the movie, because it employs a story construction that I consider disrupts the expectations of the normal coming-of-age story.”
Toronto-based Romvari directed a number of critically-acclaimed quick movies, which premiered broadly within the worldwide competition circuit and put “Blue Heron” on the map as a debut to observe. Romvari’s thesis movie, “Nonetheless Processing,” world premiered in Toronto earlier than being picked up for digital distribution by Mubi. A retrospective of eight of her quick movies was made out there on the Criterion Channel from 2022-2025. Romvari has additionally directed movies for CBC Quick Docs (“In Canine Years”) and Kino Lorber (“Remembrance of József Romvári”).
“Blue Heron” courtesy of MoreThan Movies
Lidia Damatto, a founding companion at MoreThan Movies, instructed Selection that the movie “deeply moved” her and the crew. “It’s a sturdy directorial debut with a fragile auteur standpoint from rising Canadian/Hungarian director Sophy Romvari. The movie offers with difficult subjects and feelings, from immigration to psychological well being, with a dreamy and sleek contact. We consider it will make the movie resonate with worldwide audiences past festivals.”
She added: “We’re excited to as soon as once more have a movie premiering at Filmmakers of the Current in Locarno, following the success of our two different movies from final yr, ‘Hanami’ by Denise Fernandes and ‘Kouté Vwa’ by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, which ended up each successful a number of awards on the competition and touring rather a lot since final August.”
“Blue Hero” is produced by Vancouver-based 9 Behind Productions in co-production with Hungary’s Boddah. Gábor Osváth, Ryan Bobkin and Sara Wylie be a part of Romvari as producers. MoreThan Movies is a world movie gross sales company based mostly between Barcelona, Berlin and São Paulo.
