Alpha
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026
March 5 - 15
The audacious Julia Ducournau (Titane) returns with a haunting and unpredictable new film, centered on a single mother (Golshifteh Farahani) and teenage daughter (Mélissa Boros) in the midst of an eerie epidemic.
After winning the Palme d’Or in 2021 with her body horror triumph Titane (NYFF59), the audacious Julia Ducournau returned to Cannes last year with an even more ambitious and unpredictable new film. When teenager Alpha (Mélissa Boros) returns home from a night of partying with a crude new tattoo, her adolescent recklessness sparks the concern of her doctor mother (Golshifteh Farahani), already anxious about the spread of an eerie epidemic causing otherwise healthy people—including Alpha’s charismatic uncle Amin (Tahar Rahim)—to progressively transform, their bodies seemingly turning to marble. Pushing the boundaries of mainstream French filmmaking once again, Ducournau more than delivers on the mystery of this startling premise. Viewers receptive to her bold, uncompromising vision will be entranced by a haunting, beautifully stylized film that’s as resonant as it is mysterious. A NEON release.
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