62%User score 62 percent
The Magic Faraway Tree
2026 · Adventure · Family
User Score
332 votes
Something else is out there.
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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Chris Sawin
April 23, 2025
An animal species known as the ochi have been attacking people, destroying crops, and causing general destruction to a remote village on the small island of Carpathia. Maxim (Willem Dafoe) has taken it upon himself to lead every young boy on the island to hunt and kill the ochi before their chaotic conduct ruins any more Carpathian livelihoods. Maxim’s daughter Yuri (Helena Zengel, News of the World) doesn’t share he…
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CinemaSerf
August 16, 2025
The young “Yuri” (Helena Zengel) has been brought up to be very wary of, and to hunt ruthlessly, the Carpathian Ochi. These are red, gorilla-like, creatures that inhabit the forest high above the home she shares with her father (Willem Dafoe) and “Petro” (Finn Wolfhard). Her dad blames these creatures for just about every crime in the book, but more especially for corrupting her now estranged mother “Dasha” (Emily Wa…
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