Projection du film - Alpha (2025)

Alpha – in français with English subtitles

Date & Time: Sunday, June 28th — drinks at 18:00 and screening at 19:00 Cinéma: Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4 Movie Tickets: €5.50 – €12.00

Thirteen-year-old Alpha is a restless teenager living alone with her mother. In time her uncle, who is dying from a shattering virus, moves in with the family. Their fragile world begins to unravel as the disease not only ravishes the world; the tragedy of the death that surrounds Alpha makes way for her unfolding of family memory in visceral and poetic ways.

Queer French Film Series — Program note

The Queer French Film Series runs during June 2026 in Paris (Pride Month). Lost in Frenchlation presents a series of films dedicated to French queer culture and lives, featuring filmmakers both established and new. The series explores themes including lesbian relationships, trans lives, coming-out, AIDS, and the pleasures of being queer.

Program funding note: The Queer French Film Series is funded, in part, by the City University of New York’s Research Foundation.

Speaker bio: David A. Gerstner, Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York, author of Queer Imaginings (2023).