Alpha (15)
Screen 1, Friday 20 Mar 2026, 21:00
- ends at 23:03
Keswick Alhambra Cinema: Screen 1
After Raw at the 2017 Festival and Titane in 2022, Julia Ducournau's latest film will be a talking point for 2026. It features another returnee with Golshifteh Farahani playing Alpha's mother, a role far from her laid-back appearance in Paterson.
Alpha (Mélissa Boros), a rebellious 13-year-old, lives with her single mom, a doctor with an at-home practice amid the context of a new blood-borne disease. When Alpha returns from a party, drunk, her mother discovers a new, amateur tattoo on her daughter’s arm. Worried she might have been infected by the same disease, their world is suddenly turned upside down, as fear invades their family unit, triggering a chain reaction that unleashes repressed trauma, memory and dread.
Alpha (Mélissa Boros), a rebellious 13-year-old, lives with her single mom, a doctor with an at-home practice amid the context of a new blood-borne disease. When Alpha returns from a party, drunk, her mother discovers a new, amateur tattoo on her daughter’s arm. Worried she might have been infected by the same disease, their world is suddenly turned upside down, as fear invades their family unit, triggering a chain reaction that unleashes repressed trauma, memory and dread.
French with English subtotles.
Thanks to Curzon Film