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London – Ciné Lumière
November 30, 2025 @ 19:00
The title Alpha comes from its heroine (Mélissa Boros), a 13-year-old girl who lives in an unnamed French town with her single mother (Golshifteh Farahani). She is not particularly rebellious, but one night she comes home from a party with a large capital letter A carved into her arm by a needle the size of a chopstick. Her mother, a doctor, is understandably upset, especially as the amateurish tattoo might have given Alpha a mysterious virus that turns people to stone.
Advisory content: strong violence, strong language
"An emotional heart beneath a veneer of horror-tinged genre elements."

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