Friday, April 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Screenwriter**: Julia Ducournau **Producers**: Éric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer Make room in your nightmares for Julia Ducournau’s brilliantly unsettling mix of body horror and familial trauma in the Cannes-winning director’s most human film to date with jaw-dropping visuals and a sinister tone of surreality and coming-of-age angst. 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. As a mysterious virus spreads to pandemic proportions (with mind-blowing special effects), and a mysterious junky uncle comes to stay with them, Alpha must learn to navigate the nightmares of school, home, and health as her family’s ghosts haunt her present and future. Ducournau continues to prove herself to be one of world cinema’s most exciting voices – effortlessly elevating genre filmmaking to a transcendent experience – a slow burn through a dark dreamscape of plagues, puberty, and addiction.