From writer-director Isaiah Saxon, making his feature-film-making debut, comes a story of love, longing, and acceptance centering on a teenage girl who befriends a mysterious forest creature she encounters in the woods.

THE LEGEND OF OCHI follows Yuri (Helena Zengel), a teenager  from a remote island known as Carpathia. Raised by a loving  and comically militant father (Willem Dafoe), she is taught to  fear and hunt the mythical species known as the Ochi. But when Yuri, closed-off and misunderstood, encounters a baby ochi, wounded and alone, she finds an inexplicable sense of  kinship. Rebelling against the rules of her father and her world,  she runs away from home and embarks on a quest to reunite the creature with its family. With Finn Wolfhard, Emma Watson.

“Burnished by Evan Prosofsky’s painterly cinematography, ‘The Legend of Ochi’ is a beautiful case for the tactile spectacle of puppetry as maybe the most intimate enchantment tool.” (Los Angeles Times)

“A film that tells its own tale, rather than the one it thinks you want to hear, this one has a touch of madness to it, and it seems fashioned from love and old parts for people who genuinely don’t want to know what’s going to happen next.” (Washington Post)

“The movie is tightly packed with incident, maybe overpacked, but Saxon’s fairy tale is an intense, lived-in experience, its centuries-old folkloric atmosphere dotted with all the usual intrusive elements of progress.” (Chicago Tribune)

“The film’s at its most breathtaking when simply luxuriating in the lush, dreamy ambience of its remote landscape, where alpine lakes abound and there’s always a light haze of rain to the mountain air.” (Little White Lies)

Sunday, May 18
Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
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Saturday, May 24
Doors 11:30 am | Movie 12:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
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THE LEGEND OF OCHI (Isaiah Saxon, 2025 / 95 mins / PG) In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.

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