Blue Heron
Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.
In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly erratic behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice.
In English and Hungarian with English subtitles.
“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
“Heartbreaking barely begins to describe it, although the terms masterful and transcendent also apply.” Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“My favorite movie of 2026 so far… an emotionally ferocious but elegant reconstruction of memory…” Sean Fennessey, The Big Picture podcast