Blue Heron

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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.

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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Melanie McFarland

Salon.com

4d

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma -- a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

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Odie Henderson

Boston Globe

May 12

4/4

This is a movie that gets under your skin and soaks its way into your soul without resorting to maudlin or melodramatic moments; it leaves its mark in under 90 minutes.

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Joey Shapiro

Chicago Reader

May 11

While the first half plays out as a conventional family drama, there’s an abrupt midfilm shift into metafiction that is like almost nothing else I’ve seen in a movie.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

4d

Romvari takes risks that don’t always pay off, in terms of structure, perspective, and lack of nearly all explanatory backstory. Nonetheless, her film is always interesting.

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Lisa Laman

The Spool

5d

Gaze upon the silences and empty spaces Sophy Romvari’s camera emphasizes. You’ll witness something unshakably aching.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

May 29

A

Sophy Romvari has talked quite a bit about the fallibility of memory, and I do love how the film is fragmented and uncertain. It's almost like she's treating memory as an archeological dig rather than a recollection of the truth.

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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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Sasha

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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
Box Office (Gross USA): $131.2K
Runtime: 1h 30m