Alpha

Alpha, a 13-year-old teenager, lives with her single mother. Her world falls apart when one day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

France in the 1980s: the 13-year-old Alpha lives alone with her mother, a doctor, in Le Havre. When a rumor begins to spread that she has been infected with a mysterious illness, her everyday life turns increasingly threatening. The virus, which gradually turns people into marble statues, becomes an allegorical reflection of the AIDS epidemic and reveals the disintegration of a family.

ALPHA is the new film by acclaimed director Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her previous film TITANE.