Golshifteh Farahani & Tahar Rahim in Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’ New Trailer

by Alex Billington
December 12, 2025
Source: YouTube

Finally opening in limited theaters next March. Neon has finally revealed their own official US trailer for the film Alpha, the third feature film directed by French filmmaker Julia Ducournau after making Raw and Titane. It premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival but ended up with mostly bad reviews – Neon pushed it back to March next year since it’s not a major release anymore. Something seemingly innocuous sends a teenager’s world into turmoil. Filmed in the Northern France city of Le Havre, Alpha is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm, leading her Maman to believe she has contracted a new disease going around. The film is based on Ducournau’s upbringing during the AIDS/HIV crisis in the 1980s. Starring Mélissa Boros as the young Alpha, Tahar Rahim as Amin, Alpha’s junkie uncle, Golshifteh Farahani as her mother, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Louai El Amrousy, and others. I saw this film in Cannes and yep it’s really not good – even though I’m a fan of Ducournau, this one didn’t turn out great. Oh well, it happens.

Here’s the official US trailer (+ posters) for Julia Ducournau’s film Alpha, direct from Neon’s YouTube:

You can rewatch the official UK trailer for Julia Ducournau’s Alpha film right here to see more footage.

Alpha (Mélissa Boros), a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mother in Le Havre, amid the context of a strange new bloodborne disease which slowly turns its sufferers to marble. Their world collapses the day Alpha returns from school with a tattoo on her arm, leading her mother (Golshifteh Farahani) to fear that she has contracted the disease herself. Alpha is written and directed by the award-winning French genre filmmaker Julia Ducournau, director of the films Raw and Titane previously, plus the series “Servant” & “The New Look” and a few other shorts. It’s produced by Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Arnaud Chautard, and Jean-Rachid. This initially premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year in the Main Competition section. The film already opened in UK cinemas back on November 14th, 2025. Neon will debut Ducournau’s Alpha film in select US theaters starting on March 27th, 2026. Is anyone still curious?

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