Blue Heron

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Blue Heron

Apr 2026

1h 30m

Drama

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In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from Jeremy, the family's oldest child.

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Critics Consensus

A masterfully-assembled memory piece that goes a long way towards articulating life-altering grief, Blue Heron is deeply affecting and announces writer-director Sophy Romvari as an artist to watch.

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Philip De Semlyen

Time Out

Jul 1

4/5

Memory is slippery and trauma can create a false impression of what really happened. It’s a bold and moving message from a powerful film.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Jul 1

Occasionally, a talent arrives fully formed, and the Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari is one such phenomenon. Already effortlessly fluent in the language of cinema, she is confident enough to have made a feature debut that is entirely her own.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Jun 26

4/5

...Blue Heron juggles painful memoir and self-reflexive film-making with remarkable assurance.

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Sammie Purcell

Rough Draft Atlanta

4d

In [the film's] latter half, [Sophy] Romvari recontextualizes what you’ve already seen and rips your heart out in the process.

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Jul 25

Sophy Romvary's semi-autobiographical debut feature beautifully displays yearning for understanding and closeness that was never meant to be. Some people in our lives are unreachable however we try, but it doesn't mean we don't love them any less.

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Jim Ross

TAKE ONE Magazine

Jun 29

[Showcases] the medium and Romvari's abilities to deliver a tangible, shared experience of a subjective process difficult to put into words. Although constructed of fuzzy memories and half-truths, the impression it leaves is firm and enduring.

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Francis B

May 28

oh man did they have to let it linger 😭

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Meloney

May 27

Very interesting tale of the growth of an isolated teen who showed signs of a personality disorder and the stress it put on the family. A sympathetic tale… I found it very interesting.

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FJ

May 22

Blue Heron felt incredibly intimate and real to me. A tender, heartbreaking look at grief that lets the quiet moments breathe instead of overexplaining every emotion.

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HAL 2026

May 18

A movie that tells you at the beginning that it is an insufficient telling of a heartbreaking story but very impressive quality that builds trust with the viewer.

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Brian W

May 17

The acting is extremely good. The movie tends to plod along slowly at times, though, and is on the dark side.

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ROBERT L

May 11

Very realistic portrayal of mental illness in a young person and how it affects an entire family. Brilliant directing, cinematography, acting,

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Synopsis

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from Jeremy, the family's oldest child.

Director: Sophy Romvari
Producer: Ryan Bobkin, Sara Wylie, Sophy Romvari, Gábor Osváth
Screenwriter: Sophy Romvari, Sophy Romvari
Distributor: Janus Films
Production Co: Nine Behind Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 17, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 23, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $131.2K
Runtime: 1h 30m