LOVE LEAVES A MARK.

Alpha is a 13-year-old whose world collapses the day she returns from a party with a tattoo on her arm. It prompts others to wonder if she now has a terrifying blood-borne illness that is sweeping through society.

The third feature from body-horror maestro Julia Ducournau, who arrived on the world stage with "Raw" — a cannibalism-coming-of-age tale that famously had audiences fainting in festival screenings — before claiming the Palme d'Or with "Titane", making her only the second woman in history to win Cannes' top prize. A filmmaker whose every release is an event for those drawn to the strange, the visceral and the uncategorisable.

Languages: French and English. English subtitles and closed captions available.