A24 rarely makes family-friendly films, but The Legend of Ochi adds to that small list in the coolest way. In a remote village in the Carpathian Mountains, a shy farm girl named Yuri (Helena ...

The Legend of Ochi first premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in January, where critics praised the film’s look, creature design, and cinematography.

The main character of “The Legend of Ochi” is Maxim’s daughter Yuri (Helena Zengel), an unenthusiastic enlistee in his army of little boy monster hunters.

“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid ...

Yuri is the picture of lost potential, right until one of Maxim’s hunts goes wrong and she finds herself the unlikely guardian of a baby Ochi.

The new A24 movie "The Legend of Ochi" is a PG-rated fantasy adventure in theaters Friday about a young teenage girl on a dangerous journey with a mythical species.

Misunderstood teen Yuri (Helena Zengel) goes on a dangerous journey to return an injured baby Ochi to its family in “The Legend of Ochi,” in theaters Friday, April 25. Courtesy of A24 ...

The Legend of Ochi feels like a film that shouldn't exist today. It's an original story, not an adaptation of an already popular book or comic. It's filled with complex puppetry and practical ...

The monster is an Ochi, growling primate-like beasts that terrorize the island of Carpathia, where Yuri (Helena Zengel) lives with her father Maxim (Willem Dafoe), an armor-wearing farmer who has ...

The Legend of Ochi, a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Isaiah Saxon, writer and director of The Legend of Ochi, about chasing the mysteries of nature, as a child and on film.