ALPHA: Death by stoning

After the punk rock madness of Titane and the rotting flesh of Raw, Palme d’Or-winning director Julia Ducournau turns inward, crafting a feverish coming-of-age tale that mutates into something cold and tragic: a fable about infection, fear and the limits of love.

- Leila Latif

After rebellious 13-year-old Alpha (Mélissa Boros) returns home with a bleeding tattoo, her mother (Golshifteh Farahani), a doctor who is brittle but loving, suspects the mark links to a spreading bloodborne illness that slowly turns its victims to stone, and has already claimed her drug-addicted brother Amin (Tahar Rahim).