{"id":665141,"date":"2026-06-29T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:41:16","slug":"blue-heron-sets-criterion-channel-streaming-premiere-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665141\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Blue Heron’ Sets Criterion Channel Streaming Premiere Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Already one of 2026\u2019s most revered films, Sophy Romvari<\/a>\u2018s intimate memoir<\/a> of a movie, \u201cBlue Heron<\/a>,\u201d uses filmmaking as a mode of processing grief: In the late-1990s-set film<\/a>, eight-year-old girl Sasha and her Hungarian-Canadian family are upheaved by her older brother\u2019s behavioral issues. Flash forward, and an older Sasha (Amy Zimmer) is now a documentary filmmaker, looking back on this one chapter in her family\u2019s life to unpack why traumatic events unfolded as they did.<\/p>\n

IndieWire can exclusively reveal that first-time feature director Romvari\u2019s film will premiere on the Criterion Channel<\/a> starting July 21 at 8 p.m. ET. A home-video release from Criterion Premieres will follow in November. Romvari\u2019s previous short films are currently playing on the Criterion Channel.<\/p>\n

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The film stars young newcomer Eylul Guven as Sasha in childhood, whose family relocates to a new home on Vancouver Island at the start of the film. Her withdrawn brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) is meanwhile pushing her parents to the brink with increasingly dangerous and self-destructive impulses (Iring\u00f3 R\u00e9ti as Sasha\u2019s mother and \u00c1d\u00e1m Tompa as her father, though it\u2019s understood that Sasha and Jeremy share a different father). Eventually, the past and present collide in an unexpectedly metatextual, time-stopping flourish that elevates \u201cBlue Heron\u201d to the level of an introspective, personalized rumination on memory and grief akin to \u201cAftersun\u201d \u2014 climactic emotional wallop and all.<\/p>\n

Janus Films<\/a> released \u201cBlue Heron\u201d in theaters earlier this year to an impressive box office total of more than $580,000 in the United States.<\/p>\n

Below, IndieWire also shares a clip from Criterion\u2019s forthcoming \u201cMeet the Filmmaker\u201d interview with Romvari about her experience as the only first-generation Canadian in her immediate family, and how that impacted her work.<\/p>\n

More from IndieWire\u2019s review of \u201cBlue Heron\u201d from the 2025 Locarno Film Festival<\/a>: \u201cRomvari\u2019s preoccupation with fractured identities ambitiously expands to reflect how our incomplete memories can be filled in over time \u2014\u00a0less through unlocking something we\u2019d forgotten than by achieving a greater understanding of, and empathy for, the perspectives of those with whom we shared those times. If you\u2019ve ever imagined how you\u2019d try comforting your younger self or your family about the uncertain future ahead of them, \u2018Blue Heron\u2019 may be the most emotionally devastating film of the year \u2014 and also perhaps the most comforting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBlue Heron\u201d begins streaming on the Criterion Channel on July 21.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Already one of 2026\u2019s most revered films, Sophy Romvari\u2018s intimate memoir of a movie, \u201cBlue Heron,\u201d uses filmmaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[222831,222832,96,2332,222833,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-blue-heron","tag-criterion-channel","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-janus-films","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}