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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Tara Brady

Irish Times

2d

4/5

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

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

3d

4/5

An intelligent, valuable piece of film-making.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

3d

5/5

...[Blue Heron] is a fine-grain family portrait laced with the spirit of documentary reconstruction. It is also hard to write about honestly without sounding like a hype artist, so brilliant is the filmmaking, so startling the narrative depth.

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Jim Ross

TAKE ONE Magazine

9h

[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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William Stottor

Movie Marker

2d

5/5

Blue Heron is very much a striking family drama, but it is also so much more than that.

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Hilary A White

Irish Independent

3d

4/5

Blue Heron sees a young writer-director masterfully interrogate resonances from her own childhood. In doing so, she opens up a delicate two-way conversation between past and present. Recommended.

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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