20 Best Movies Of 2026 (So Far)

15. Blue Heron

If films are windows offering us the chance to glimpse inside the lives far removed from our own, then Sophy Romvari's autobiographical triumph Blue Heron is a film everyone should seek out. 

The drama, which concerns a Hungarian family who relocate to Vancouver Island in the mid-1990s, essentially acts as a memory piece, an almost subconscious narrative weaving together a remarkably moving tale of families altered and twisted by unforeseen change. 

Dream-like but rich with realism, Blue Heron is a clever little film that acts first and foremost as a tender coming-of-age drama, but also as a therapy session for its creator and characters, and an exhilarating exercise in style that feels like Romvari is at times creating a new language for the screen. 

Bold and original and full of extraordinary, ordinary lives, Romvari's feature-length debut heralds the arrival of a filmmaker to watch, and a film to savour.