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*”Tiger Eats a Baby” (2020)

*”Tiger Eats a Baby” (2020)

== Accolades ==

==Accolades==

{| class=”wikitable sortable plainrowheaders”

{| class=”wikitable sortable plainrowheaders”

!Award

!Award

!Date of ceremony

!Date of ceremony

!Category

!Category

! Nominated work

!Recipient

!Result

!Result

!{{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}

!{{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}

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! rowspan=”2″ scope=”row” |[[Locarno Film Festival]]

! scope=”row” |[[Locarno Film Festival]]

| rowspan=“2” |[[78th Locarno Film Festival|August 16, 2025]]

| rowspan=2|[[78th Locarno Film Festival|August 16, 2025]]

|[[Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present]]

|[[Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present]]

| rowspan=“9” |”Blue Heron”| {{nom}}

| rowspan=9|”Blue Heron”

| {{nom}}

| align=”center” |<ref name=”lu:variety”>{{Cite news |author=Marta Balaga |date=July 8, 2025 |title=Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche Head to Locarno as Swiss Fest Announces Lineup, An ‘Ambitious and Exciting Edition’ |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/global/locarno-linep-radu-jude-abdellatif-kechiche-ben-rivers-1236449004/ |access-date=July 20, 2025 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en}}</ref>

| align=”center” |<ref name=”lu:variety”>{{Cite news |= |title=Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche Head to Locarno as Swiss Fest Announces Lineup, An ‘Ambitious and Exciting Edition’ |=2025 |access-date=July 20, 2025 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en}}</ref>

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|[[Locarno Film Festival#First Feature Competition|Swatch First Feature Award]]| {{won}}

|[[Locarno Film Festival#First Feature Competition|Swatch First Feature Award]]

| {{won}}

|<ref name=”:22“>{{Cite web|title=Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron wins First Feature Award at Locarno|url=https://playbackonline.ca/2025/08/18/sophy-romvaris-blue-heron-wins-first-feature-award-at-locarno/|access-date=2026-01-28|first=Jamie|last=Casemore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tabbara |first=Mona |title=Sho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2025 |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/sho-miyakes-two-seasons-two-strangers-wins-golden-leopard-at-locarno-2025/5207890.article |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=Screen |language=en}}</ref>

|<ref name=”:” /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2025|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/sho-miyakes-two-seasons-two-strangers-wins-golden-leopard-at-locarno-2025/5207890.article|access-date=2026-01-28|language=en}}</ref>

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! scope=”row” |[[Toronto International Film Festival]]

! scope=”row” |[[Toronto International Film Festival]]

|[[2025 Toronto International Film Festival|September 14, 2025]]

|[[2025 Toronto International Film Festival|September 14, 2025]]

|[[Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Discovery Award|Best Canadian Discovery]]| {{won}}

|[[Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Discovery Award|Best Canadian Discovery]]

| {{won}}

|<ref name=“hamnet“>Pete Hammond, [https://deadline.com/2025/09/hamnet-toronto-film-festival-peoples-choice-award-1236530932/ “‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award”]. ”[[Deadline Hollywood]]”, September 14, 2025.</ref>

|<ref name=hamnet>Pete Hammond, [https://deadline.com/2025/09/hamnet-toronto-film-festival-peoples-choice-award-1236530932/ “‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award”]. ”[[Deadline Hollywood]]”, September 14, 2025.</ref>

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! scope=”row” |[[Director’s Guild of Canada]]

! scope=”row” |[[Director’s Guild of Canada]]

|2025

|2025

|[[Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award]]| {{shortlist}}

|[[Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award]]

| {{shortlist}}

|<ref>Connie Thiessen, [https://broadcastdialogue.com/dgc-unveils-film-doc-nominees-discovery-award-short-list/ “DGC unveils film, doc nominees; Discovery Award short list”]. ”Broadcast Dialogue”, September 22, 2025.</ref>

|<ref>Connie Thiessen, [https://broadcastdialogue.com/dgc-unveils-film-doc-nominees-discovery-award-short-list/ “DGC unveils film, doc nominees; Discovery Award short list”]. ”Broadcast Dialogue”, September 22, 2025.</ref>

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! rowspan=”2” scope=”row” |[[Vancouver International Film Festival]]

! =”” =”” |[[Vancouver International Film Festival]]

| rowspan=”2″ |[[2025 Vancouver International Film Festival|8 October 2025]]

| rowspan=”2″ |[[2025 Vancouver International Film Festival|8 October 2025]]

|Horizon Award for Emerging Canadian Director| {{won}}

|Horizon Award for Emerging Canadian Director

| {{won}}

| rowspan=“2” |<ref>Andrew Tracy, [https://playbackonline.ca/2025/10/10/the-things-you-kill-blue-heron-take-trophies-at-viff-awards/ “The Things You Kill, Blue Heron take trophies at VIFF awards”]. ”[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]”, October 10, 2025.</ref>

| rowspan=2|<ref>Andrew Tracy, [https://playbackonline.ca/2025/10/10/the-things-you-kill-blue-heron-take-trophies-at-viff-awards/ “The Things You Kill, Blue Heron take trophies at VIFF awards”]. ”[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]”, October 10, 2025.</ref>

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|Arbutus Award for Best British Columbia Director| {{won}}

|Arbutus Award for Best British Columbia Director

| {{won}}

|-

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! scope=”row” |[[Festival du nouveau cinéma]]

! scope=”row” |[[Festival du nouveau cinéma]]

|[[2025 Festival du nouveau cinéma|2025]]

|[[2025 Festival du nouveau cinéma|2025]]

|National Competition, Grand Prix for Best Feature Film| {{won}}

|National Competition, Grand Prix for Best Feature Film

| {{won}}

|<ref name=”:12“>{{Cite web |title=Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma unveils its award winners |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/485009/ |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=Cineuropa – the best of european cinema |date=2025-10-21 |language=en}}</ref>

|<ref name=”:”>{{Cite web |title=Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma unveils its award winners |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/485009/ |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=Cineuropa – the best of european cinema |language=en}}</ref>

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! rowspan=”2″ scope=”row” |[[Toronto Film Critics Association]]

! scope=”row” |[[Toronto Film Critics Association]]

| rowspan=“2” |[[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2025|2025]]

| rowspan=2|[[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2025|2025]]

|[[Rogers Best Canadian Film Award|Rogers Best Canadian Film]]| {{pending}}

|[[Rogers Best Canadian Film Award|Rogers Best Canadian Film]]

| {{pending}}

| rowspan=“2“ |<ref name=”:42“>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-09 |title=Filmmaker honoured for drama about immigrant family’s move to Vancouver Island |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/filmmaker-honoured-for-drama-about-immigrant-familys-move-to-vancouver-island-11595144 |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=Times Colonist |language=en}}</ref><ref name=”:52“>{{Cite web |last=Press |first=The Canadian |title=‘One Battle After Another’ dominates Toronto Film Critics Association Awards with 4 wins |url=https://cfjctoday.com/2025/12/08/one-battle-after-another-dominates-toronto-film-critics-association-awards-with-4-wins/ |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=CFJC Today Kamloops |language=en}}</ref>

| rowspan=2 <ref name=”:” /><ref name=”:”>{{Cite web|title=‘One Battle After Another’ dominates Toronto Film Critics Association Awards with 4 wins|url=https://cfjctoday.com/2025/12/08/one-battle-after-another-dominates-toronto-film-critics-association-awards-with-4-wins/ |access-date=2026-01-28|= |=}}</ref>

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|[[Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature|Best First Feature]]| {{won}}

|[[Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature|Best First Feature]]

| {{won}}

|}

|}

Canadian actress and director

Sophy Romvari

Sophy Romvari at the 78th Locarno Film Festival in 2025
Born (1990-10-20) October 20, 1990 (age 35)
Occupations
Years active 2013–present
Notable work Still Processing

Sophy Romvari (born October 20, 1990)[a][1] is a Canadian film director, writer, and actress.[2] She attracted widespread acclaim for her short film Still Processing (2020).[3] The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released online by Mubi.[4]

A collection of Romvari’s short films, including Still Processing, were subsequently released by The Criterion Collection on their streaming platform in 2022.[5][6]

Her other notable films include Pumpkin Movie, which screened at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and Norman/Norman, which screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Her work has screened at film festivals internationally, such as at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, Indie Memphis, and the True/False Film Festival.[7][8]

Romvari began making films in the mid-2010s, around 2013, while in film school. In 2017, Romvari’s short documentary film Pumpkin Movie premiered at True/False Film Festival and screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest.[7] In 2018, her short Norman Norman premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[8]

Romvari also directed In Dog Years (2019), a short documentary for CBC Short Docs.[9] The following year, her short documentary Remembrance of József Romvári (2020), about her grandfather who was a production designer in the Hungarian film industry, was included as a DVD special feature for three films by Hungarian director István Szabó, and distributed by Kino Lorber.[10][11]

Still Processing, Romvari’s thesis film from York University, attracted widespread critical acclaim and premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] It was later released online by Mubi in 2021.[4]

A collection of Romvari’s short films, including Still Processing, were subsequently released by The Criterion Collection on their streaming platform in 2022.[5][6]

Her 2022 short film, It’s What Each Person Needs, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, marking her third short film to premiere at the festival after Norman/Norman in 2018 and Still Processing in 2020, and was called a “stunning analysis on the foundations of identity.”[12][13]

Her full-length directorial debut, Blue Heron, entered production in 2024.[14] It premiered on August 8, 2025 in the “Filmmakers of the Present” at the 78th Locarno Film Festival.[15] It was subsequently screened at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Best Canadian Discovery award.[16]

Short film

Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
2016 Nine Behind Yes Yes Yes
Let Your Heart Be Light Yes Yes No Co-directed with Deragh Campbell
2017 Pumpkin Movie Yes Yes Yes
It’s Him Yes Yes Yes
2022 It’s What Each Person Needs Yes Yes Yes

Documentary short

Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes
2018 Norman Norman Yes Yes Yes
Grandma’s House Yes Yes Yes
2019 In Dog Years Yes Yes Yes
2020 Some Kind of Connection Yes Yes No Co-directed with Mike Thorn
Still Processing Yes Yes Yes
Oh, to Realize Yes Yes Yes

Feature film

Year Title Director Writer Producer
2025 Blue Heron Yes Yes Yes
  • Let Your Heart Be Light (2016)
  • From Nine to Nine (2016)
  • Pumpkin Movie (2017)
  • Spice It Up (2018)
  • The Sunless Remembered (2018)
  • Preface to History (2019)
  • Tiger Eats a Baby (2020)
  1. ^ Romvari mentions her age as two years old in 1992 in her short film Still Processing.
  1. ^ “Today is my 30th birthday — and I think it’s the first time in my life I actually *feel* the age that I am…and it feels nice! ⚘”. Twitter. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  2. ^ Justine Smith (February 19, 2021). “A Filmmaker Grapples with the Loss of Her Brothers Through Documentary”. Hyperallergic.
  3. ^ a b Barry Hertz, “Canadian short filmmakers play the long game”. The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c “Raw Cooked: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Sophy Romvari’s “Still Processing”“. MUBI. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-22. Cite error: The named reference “:1” was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b c Loayza, Beatrice. “Working Memory: A Conversation with Sophy Romvari”. The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  6. ^ a b c Urbanek, Sydney. “Making movies helps Sophy Romvari trust her own memories”. CBC Arts. Cite error: The named reference “:5” was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b c Wilner, Norman (April 24, 2018). “Hot Docs review: Pumpkin Movie”. Now.
  8. ^ a b Wilner, Norman (August 27, 2018). “10 Canadian short films to watch at TIFF 2018”. Now.
  9. ^ Mullen, Pat (April 12, 2019). “Now Streaming: ‘In Dog Years’“. Point of View.
  10. ^ Remembrance of József Romvári, retrieved 2022-10-03
  11. ^ “Miniseries Episode 6 – STILL PROCESSING with Sophy Romvari”. SAD HILL MEDIA. 18 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  12. ^ Goslawski, Barbara (2022-09-27). “TIFF 2022: It’s What Each Person Needs”. That Shelf. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  13. ^ Whittemore, Liz (2022-09-14). “TIFF 22 short film review: Sophy Romvari’s ‘IT’S WHAT EACH PERSON NEEDS’ pulls the run out from underneath you with its intimacy”. Reel News Daily. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  14. ^ Fekete, Anna (July 31, 2024). “PRODUCTION: Canadian/Hungarian Blue Heron Starts Filming”. Film New Europe.
  15. ^ Tabbara, Mona (July 8, 2025). “Locarno unveils 2025 line-up including premieres of Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’, Kamal Aljafari’s ‘With Hasan In Gaza'””. Screen Daily.
  16. ^ Pete Hammond, “‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award”. Deadline Hollywood, September 14, 2025.
  17. ^ Marta Balaga (July 8, 2025). “Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche Head to Locarno as Swiss Fest Announces Lineup, An ‘Ambitious and Exciting Edition’“. Variety. Retrieved July 20, 2025.
  18. ^ Tabbara, Mona. “Sho Miyake’s ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ wins Golden Leopard at Locarno 2025”. Screen. Retrieved 2026-01-28.
  19. ^ Pete Hammond, “‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award”. Deadline Hollywood, September 14, 2025.
  20. ^ Connie Thiessen, “DGC unveils film, doc nominees; Discovery Award short list”. Broadcast Dialogue, September 22, 2025.
  21. ^ Andrew Tracy, “The Things You Kill, Blue Heron take trophies at VIFF awards”. Playback, October 10, 2025.

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