Blue Heron

Blue Heron

May 8, 2026
"A bold and intimate stunner and an extraordinary debut feature."

Details About the Film

In the late 1990s, a Hungarian family of six immigrate to Canada. Eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) watches as each of her family members navigate their new lives, but their hope of a fresh start is dashed when her older brother starts exhibiting increasingly dangerous behavior, forcing her parents to make a devastating choice. The feature debut of the award-winning Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker Sophy Romvari, Blue Heron is a metatextual work blending fact and fiction to explore memory, grief, and art.

Director(s): Sophy Romvari
Starring: Eylul Guven, Iringó Réti, Ádám Tompa, Edik Beddoes, Amy Zimmer, Liam Serg, Preston Drabble
Year Released: 2026
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: Canada, Hungary
Language(s): English and Hungarian with English subtitles
Accessibility Options: ListenTech (Hearing Impaired / Personal Amplified Audio Receiver w/optional T-Coil loop)

Film Reviews

"“Blue Heron” may be the most emotionally devastating film of the year -- and also perhaps the most comforting."

–Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire

"There is a pulsating ache at the heart of writer/director Sophy Romvari’s assured feature debut “Blue Heron” that hits with such precision, it could break you open from the inside."

–Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com

"With its fusion of memory and history, its blend of nonfiction and torrential imagination, its exploration of the very nature of memory, “Blue Heron” takes a place alongside other recent films, such as “Nickel Boys,” “The Mastermind,” and “The Secret Agent,” that offer similarly original approaches to to the collective and personal past—and to the very terms of its survival, its transmission, its unshakable power." 

–Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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