"A tender meditation on loss, nature and the delicate bonds that hold a family together" THE SUMMER BOOK is a Stylist pick of the week. In cinemas from 7 August. www.stylist.co.uk/entertainmen...

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Blue Heron may be film of the year for me

198. Blue Heron (Criterion, 2025 - Sophy Romvari) An affecting, unusual film that looks at the impact of a disturbed teenager on his family, first as an impressionistic film through a young girl's eyes (shades of Aftersun), then the girl as a young woman re-evaluating it through more formal means.

⏬️ Saw it this week. It's a great film that documents an important & inspiring event. ⏬️

Conic@conic.film · 3mo ago

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET is @nytimes.com critic’s pick 🎉 “An exceptional documentary” Opening in NYC today!

THE SUMMER BOOK comes to UK & Irish cinemas two weeks today ☀️ Tickets are on sale now, with more cinemas to be announced. Visit conic.film/summer for links and more info.

My radio chat about this seems a good point to throw up my review of the film from a short while ago. Loved BLUE HERON.

TAKE ONE ███zine 📽️🎞@takeonecinema.net · 2w ago

“BLUE HERON is a gentle demonstration of cinema’s power, and Romvari's ability to create a tangible, shared experience of something difficult to put into words. The film is one of fuzzy memories & half-truths, but the impression it leaves is firm & enduring.” - @jimgr.com reviews. #filmsky

if you told me "i can only watch one film this year" i'd say watch Blue Heron

Blue Heron is a beautiful film, an incredible debut feature, and now I'm an emotional mess.

Just shared in Screen International, we’re bringing Eivind Landsvik’s debut feature LOW EXPECTATIONS - starring girl in red - to UK cinemas early next year 🎵 conic.film/low

You can now watch HEN at home on Apple TV, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and Prime Video 🥚 “Fascinatingly individual” – ★★★★ Film Review Daily “Outstandingly unusual” – ★★★★ Filmhounds conic.film/hen 🐣

Delighted that THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR has been longlisted for the Grierson Awards 2026 in the category Best Cinema Documentary 🐑 Congratulations to the whole team! conic.film/bear

THE SUMMER BOOK is a tender adaptation of Tove Jansson’s classic novel, exploring childhood, grief, and the restorative power of nature 📖 Visit conic.film/summer to find a screening cinema near you 🌊

The next week of BLUE HERON screenings 🗺️ “A powerful film” – ★★★★ Time Out “An intelligent, valuable piece of filmmaking” – ★★★★The Guardian “So brilliant is the filmmaking, so startling the narrative depth” – ★★★★★ Financial Times conic.film/blueheron

New Trailer for THE SUMMER BOOK, Starring Glenn Close www.themoviewaffler.com/2026/07/new-... #TheSummerBook #GlennClose #ToveJansson #AndersDanielsenLie #film #movies #trailers

THE SUMMER BOOK – adapted from Tove Jansson’s beloved novel ☀️⛱️ An intergenerational family spend a transformative summer at their rustic vacation home on an unspoiled, remote island in the Gulf of Finland. In cinemas from 7 August. conic.film/summer

Blue Heron is a moving and rawly believable portrait of a family - www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/blue...

Blue Heron is a moving and rawly believable portrait of a family

Canadian-Hungarian film maker draws on her own background in frighteningly good debut

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Shared in @screendaily.bsky.social, we’ll be bringing THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING to UK & Irish cinemas next year. Set in Edinburgh in 1810, THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING follows two teachers whose lives are thrown into turmoil after one of their pupils accuses them of having a love affair.

How Sophy Romvari turned troubled 90s memories into summer’s most spellbinding film a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

How Sophy Romvari turned troubled 90s memories into summer’s most spellbinding film - A Rabbit's Foot

Canadian film director Sophy Romvari has graduated from a prolific career of short-film making to creating her buzzy first feature. Blue Heron is a crystalline retelling of her childhood, drawing on a...

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Had the pleasure of watching Sophy Romvari’s exceptional debut Blue Heron with a Q&A at the BFI this weekend and loved it. Wonderful film.

“In Blue Heron there are no solutions, nothing that can make up for what has been lost. Instead, the film offers quiet, bittersweet acknowledgement: that you might never make sense of your grief” Ian Wang reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Blue Heron review: flying the nest

Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari restages her childhood experiences to devastating effect in a semi-autobiographical debut feature that understands grief is not a problem to be solved.

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Blue Heron (d. Sophy Romvari 2025). Contender for the best film I've seen this year.

Blue Heron, a Canadian movie I did well and truly love, is now in UK and Irish cinemas and getting lovely reviews. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Blue Heron review – sombre and sophisticated portrait of childhood trauma in 1990s Canada

A Hungarian immigrant family grapple with oppositional defiant disorder in Sophy Romvari’s intimate and unshowy debut feature

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Resharing my BLUE HERON rave for @indiewire.com now the film is finally opening in UK cinemas from today www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

‘Blue Heron’ Review: Sophy Romvari’s Outstanding Debut Feature Explores the Imperfections of Memories

The Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker draws from her own childhood for a bold and intimate stunner in the vein of "Invention" and "Aftersun."

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"Sophy Romvari perfectly portrays this textbook disconnect and its emotional fallout in her incredible film debut" www.liveforfilm.com/2026/06/26/r...

Review: Blue Heron – “the distinct voice of a filmmaker making art as a form of healing.” Read it here bit.ly/4gcwoNP by @FrankieWriter #BlueHeron #film #SophyRomvari #review

My review of Blue Heron (dir. Sophy Romvari) is up here: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Blue Heron review – sombre and sophisticated portrait of childhood trauma in 1990s Canada

A Hungarian immigrant family grapple with oppositional defiant disorder in Sophy Romvari’s intimate and unshowy debut feature

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"So brilliant is the filmmaking, so startling the narrative depth...sometimes hype is just hype. Sometimes you should believe it" ★★★★★ for BLUE HERON in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/798d...

BLUE HERON is "an intelligent, valuable piece of film-making" ★★★★ @theguardian.com In cinemas tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Blue Heron review – sombre and sophisticated portrait of childhood trauma in 1990s Canada

A Hungarian immigrant family grapple with oppositional defiant disorder in Sophy Romvari’s intimate and unshowy debut feature

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Sophy Romvari’s drama Blue Heron is in UK cinemas this week via @conic.film My ★★★★ review! cinemaperspective.com/2026/06/18/f...

Film review: Blue Heron

After her short film Still Processing received widespread critical acclaim, Canadian writer and director Sophy Romvari has expanded on the same ideas in her feature debut, Blue Heron. Inspired by h…

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Watch the UK & Ireland trailer for THE SUMMER BOOK, adapted from Tove Jansson's beloved novel 🌞 “A loving portrait of budding and fading” – New York Times In cinemas from 7 August. Visit conic.film/summer for more information.