The Hyperboreans

Name: The Hyperboreans
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Released: October 10, 2025
Duration: 71 min
Rating: 75

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Film Movement | Release Date (Streaming): October 10, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo Leon & Cocina, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction and animation.

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 71 min

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Next Best Picture David Cuevas

Oct 6, 2025

Through puppets, recreations, and other hybrid material, León & Cociña have produced an otherworldly, and thought-provoking cultural artifact on Chile's nationalist history. Read full review

IONCINEMA.com Nicholas Bell

Oct 6, 2025

Bizarre, but not without its own unique brand of narrative and visual rewards, The Hyperboreans is an eclectic, disturbing, and formidable foray into the creative possibilities of what cinema can be. Read full review

The Film Stage Savina Petkova

Oct 6, 2025

León and Cociña, per usual, have their fingers on the pulse, and their particularly material approach to storytelling and the nation-psyche makes The Hyperboreans a poignant, experimental film-warning urging you to never forget. Read full review

Jonathan Holland

Oct 6, 2025

Challenging on practically all levels – and yoking together ideas from Chile’s history, the occult, right-wing conspiracy theory, Jungian psychology, silent film and elsewhere – directors Cristobal Leon and Joaquin Cocina pull it all together by virtue of their mastery of technique. Read full review

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