Produced by A24, “The Legend of Ochi,” brings the bountiful imagination and technical innovation of writer-director Isaiah Saxon into a larger canvas. Saxon, perhaps best known for directing t ...

The Legend of Ochi premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. This initial review was timed for its world premiere embargo. A24’s almost-fantasy-adventure, almost-family-drama movie The ...

The director of "The Legend of Ochi" did not face pushback from A24 when he wanted to use puppets instead of VFX.

Going practical in “The Legend of Ochi” was important to director Isaiah Saxon — and it turned out that was true for A24, too. Saxon was asked about the benefits of leaning into puppetry in ...

But releases must go on, albeit with occasionally altered circumstances. An official synopsis for “The Legend of Ochi” reads: In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl ...