mt-title

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Keywords

  • Body Horror
  • Cannes: En compétition
  • Female Filmmakers
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Film Festival Oostende
  • Golshifteh Farahani
  • Les René du Cinéma (ex-Magritte)
  • Locarno Film Festival!
  • Psychological horror
  • Thrill and Horror
  • queer

Actors

  • Mélissa Boros
  • Tahar Rahim
  • Golshifteh Farahani
  • Emma Mackey
  • Finnegan Oldfield

Director

  • Julia Ducournau

Horror, Drama

2h 8min

-12

FR

NL

France
Belgium
2025
Alpha, a 13-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother until one day a tattoo turns their world upside down.

Alpha, a 13-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother until one day a tattoo turns their world upside down.


Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Festivals

Cast & Crew