Sophy Romvari

Kinet's Halloween Omnibus feature.

In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.

A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.

A short portrait of Hungarian production designer József Romvári, made by his granddaughter. Included as a special bonus feature on the release of Mephisto, Confidence, and Colonel Redl, by director István Szabó through Kino Lorber.

A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project.

A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.

A film about the choices we make and the chances we take. From grief and abjection to bliss and communion, it takes us through one day in the lives of two gay men.

An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents’ pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother.

There is a vampire who has been quietly stalking the streets of New York City for a hundred years. When she saves a young woman from being sexually assaulted on the stairwell of her building, she has cause to reminisce on a life spent in shadows, fearing the daylight and everyone who walks in it.

Accompanied by his young cub, an orphaned stray roams industrial landscapes, longing for the return of his one true companion.

A portrait of a young woman providing companionship for juxtaposing demographics.

Just beginning their relationship, filmmaker Sophy Romvari and writer Mike Thorn find themselves in lockdown during a global pandemic. This film is a documentation of their time spent together in Calgary, Alberta.

A young woman spending christmas alone after a breakup is visited by her friend.

A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.

Upon traveling to Budapest to meet her extended family for the first time, filmmaker Sophy Romvari attempts to document her late grandmother’s apartment through images of the past and present.

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.

A virtual love story set in Vancouver, New York, and the dying world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

Norman, 16MM

A short experimental film that explores the loss of identity that can occur when one submits oneself completely to technology. Made as a contribution to "Greetings from Isolation", a collection of short films made during lock-down with limited resources, curated by Canadian Programmer Stacey Donen.

Featuring a dozen segments of spine-tingling surrealist horror, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special takes viewers on the cinematic equivalent of an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City! From an X-rated Halloween party hookup to a coming of age story set on the eve of Ted Bundy’s execution; from a documentary about pumpkin carving and misogyny to a supercut about the gendered dangers of the bathtub; from a cursed stand-up comedy set to a woman ( Carrie Coon) trapped inside a Red Lobster commercial; from a John Carpenter homage (featuring a cameo by Carpenter himself) to a sequel to The Eyeslicer’s now infamous Gwilliam, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is an experience like no other – a deranged, proudly transgressive anthology carving out a bold new space in the Midnight movie genre.