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ALPHA

• Director: Jan-Willem van Ewijk
• THE NETHERLANDS, SLOVENIA, SWITZERLAND / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 104’ / Dutch, English, German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Jan-Willem van Ewijk
• Director of Photography: Douwe Hennink
• Editing: Sander Vos, Eline Bakker
• Music: Ella van der Woude
• Cast: Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Pia Amofa, Julien Genoud, Daria Fuchs, Pia Nikolić, Kaija Ledergerber
• Producer: Frank Hoeve
• Production Co.: BALDR Film BV
• World Sales: Level K

2024 Venice Europa Cinemas Label

Rein’s quiet bubble at a small skiing village in the Alps bursts when his extroverted father Gijs comes to visit unannounced. With a certain aura and vanity that covers his age and shadows his son’s presence, Gijs quickly takes centre stage on a back country ski tour. The tension between the two men is palpable, but relentless nature takes over their petty game of dominance. The domineering Alpine panorama and its blinding blanket of snow provides the perfect background for the intense emotional interaction of real-life father and son playing for the first time together, as father and son. Having had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival’s Venice Days section, Alpha is ’a film about the changing nature of masculinity in our society,’ says director van Ewijk, whose Atlantic. was screened at the festival in 2015.

Screened with the support of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Istanbul.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.