A dark horse favourite of many critics at this year’s fest, Blue Heron is an affecting and delightfully convoluted rumination on memory. And it, along with its stellar child lead Eylul Guven, just so happens to be Canadian.  Filmed on her native Vancouver Island, writer and director Sophy Romvari mines her own past: the story of an older brother diagnosed, then undiagnosed, with oppositional defiance disorder. Whatever the cause, as Romvari exposes in a topsy-turvy narrative that ties and unties the past with the present, his behaviour shapes and nearly destroys the rest of their lives.It is an altogether gorgeous and deftly told narrative. And along with Chandler Levack’s incisively unique Mile End Kicks and Matt Johnson’s hilariously subversive Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, it is among a host of films finally showing off a decidedly and identifiably Canadian viewpoint.-CBC 

“…a remarkably assured feature debut that cleverly plays with form to staggering effect.” – Asynchronous Media