Alpha.
- Fiction Feature Film
- 100'
- 2024
- Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovenia
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Synopsis
After his mother’s death, Rein moves to an Alpine village to be in nature, meditate and teach snowboarding. His bubble bursts when his extroverted father Gijs visits, charms Rein’s friends and flirts with his girlfriend Laura. Tensions rise on a ski tour, turning into a fight for survival.
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Alpha is a film about the shifting nature of masculinity in today’s society. A father and son are stripped of privilege, technology, and ego, left exposed to nature. From a noisy ski resort to the silent Alpine heights, rigidity gives way to flow and the music of the mountains.
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Giornate degli autori Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s Alpha. was our unanimous choice for this year’s Europa Cinemas Label in Venice. We were all very impressed by the script, editing, photography and character development in this dynamic and believable study of the relationship between father and son. We also really liked the choice of music, and the absence of any sentimentality – it does not preach. Their petty grievances and posturing early on in the film are re-valuated against the empty, majestic backdrop of the vast, silent mountains. The film is beautifully shot but the director never allows the audience’s attention to waver from the intensity of the physical and emotional interaction between father and son as they are faced with a fight for survival. A real tour de force which we think audiences will connect with.
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