Blue Heron

★★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★ Guardian
★★★★ Time Out

One of the year’s best reviewed films, this piercing debut feature by director Sophy Romvari is a uniquely perceptive view on family life and loss. Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her family arrive in Vancouver Island, hoping to turn a new page. But her half-brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) is a chaotic and mercurial presence, intent on spinning family life off its axis once again.

A deeply felt autobiographical portrait of her ‘90s upbringing, this is heartbreaker but one that anyone with a family will relate to. Like Aftersun before it, Blue Heron circles a child’s past through their present day recollections, miraculously honouring the child’s intense close point of view and the adult’s wider frame.