France, Belgium 2025Language:French, BerberSubtitles:GermanDirector:Julia DucournauWriter:Julia DucournauCinematographer:Ruben ImpensEditor:Jean-Christophe BouzyMusic:Jim WilliamsSound:Paul MaernoudtWith:Mélissa Boros, Golshifteh Faharani, Tahar Rahim, Finnegan Oldfield, Emma MackeyProducer:Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Jean-Rachid Kallouche, Arnaud Chautard, Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre WarnautsProduction Company:Mandarin and Compagnie, Kallouche cinéma, Frakas productionDistributor:PLAION Pictures GmbH128 min, Colour

13-year-old Alpha comes home from school with a tattoo. Fear and suspicion arise regarding a deadly blood disease that turns people to marble... This time, director Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d’Or in 2021 for TITANE, creates a more personal narrative. In visually striking scenes that mediate between nightmare and metaphor, the film portrays the hardship of growing up in a world where even the body can turn against you. Ducournau symbolically weaves together sickness, physicality and isolation to create a portrait of fear, love and decay – provocative, emotionally raw and disturbing at the same time.

Image©MANDARIN_COMPAGNIE  KALLOUCHE CINEMA FRAKAS PRODUCTIONS

Director's Biography:Director's Biography:Julia Ducournau is a French film director and screenwriter. She attended film school at La Fémis in Paris, where she studied screenwriting. Her first feature RAW (2016), won the coveted FIPRESCI prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Director's Filmography:

2024 THE NEW LOOK (SERIES)
2021 TITANE
2016 RAW


Director's photo: © Mandarin & Compagnie, Kallouche cinéma, Frakas Productions, France 3 Cinema