Sophy Romvari's 'Blue Heron' Gets Criterion Channel Streaming Premiere Date of July 21

Summary

Sophy Romvari's debut feature film "Blue Heron," already one of 2026's most acclaimed films, will premiere on the Criterion Channel starting July 21. The intimate memoir follows eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian-Canadian family navigating grief and upheaval caused by her older brother's behavioral issues in the late 1990s. As an adult, Sasha (Amy Zimmer) becomes a documentary filmmaker, using her craft to unpack the traumatic events of her childhood. The film explores filmmaking as a mode of processing grief.

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