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ALPHA
2024Films Action & Adventure/DramaSports/1 h 40 mins
Seeking solitude after his mother’s death, Rein retreats to the Alps as a snowboard instructor. But when his boisterous father Gijs visits, tensions erupt on a treacherous mountain hike—until nature turns their rivalry into a desperate fight for survival.
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ALPHA
2024Films Action & Adventure/DramaSports/1 h 40 mins
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After his mother passed away, Rein (31) moves to a small village in the Alps to be in nature, meditate and work as a snowboard teacher. His quiet bubble bursts when his extroverted father Gijs (60) comes to visit. Gijs quickly takes center stage on a back country ski tour with Rein and his friends. He charms the youngsters and flirts with Rein’s new girlfriend Laura, leaving no room for his son. It isn’t long before Rein has had enough. He drags his father away from the group and they continue their hike up the mountain alone. The tension between the two men is palpable. Gijs feels increasingly uncomfortable with the steep and dangerous terrain but Rein presses on to the top, ignoring his father’s pleas to walk back down. It isn’t long before nature violently lashes out, turning their petty struggle for dominance into a full-blown quest for survival.
Director
Jan Willem van Ewijk
Country
Switzerland
Slovenia
Netherlands
Language
Dutch

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After his mother passed away, Rein (31) moves to a small village in the Alps to be in nature, meditate and work as a snowboard teacher. His quiet bubble bursts when his extroverted father Gijs (60) comes to visit. Gijs quickly takes center stage on a back country ski tour with Rein and his friends. He charms the youngsters and flirts with Rein’s new girlfriend Laura, leaving no room for his son. It isn’t long before Rein has had enough. He drags his father away from the group and they continue their hike up the mountain alone. The tension between the two men is palpable. Gijs feels increasingly uncomfortable with the steep and dangerous terrain but Rein presses on to the top, ignoring his father’s pleas to walk back down. It isn’t long before nature violently lashes out, turning their petty struggle for dominance into a full-blown quest for survival.
Director
Jan Willem van Ewijk
Country
Switzerland
Slovenia
Netherlands
Language
Dutch

Accolades
Left Leaf
Label Europa Cinemas Award
Venice Film Festival, 2024
Right Leaf
Left Leaf
Label Europa Cinemas Award
Venice Film Festival, 2024
Right Leaf
Left Leaf
Label Europa Cinemas Award
Venice Film Festival, 2024
Right Leaf

Trivia
Starring real-life father and son, Reinout and Gijs Scholten van Aschat (legend of Dutch film, TV and stage).
Critics
...'...the pervasive mood of encroaching discomfort is stylishly rendered.'
Screen Daily

Meet the Cast

Gijs Scholten van Aschat

Reinout Scholten van Aschat

Meet the Cast
Gijs Scholten van Aschat

Gijs Scholten van Aschat

Reinout Scholten van Aschat

Reinout Scholten van Aschat

Directors
Jan Willem van Ewijk

Jan Willem van Ewijk

Director's Statement

Alpha. is a film about the changing nature of masculinity in our society. It slowly strips a father and son of their modern Western privileges, their technology, their personal grievances and their egos, leaving them naked in the face of nature. The film may start in the noisy and cluttered environment of a ski resort, but the story culminates on the silent, frozen and unforgiving snowfields and rock-faces of the high Alps. 

Jan Willem van Ewijk
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