Alpha.
Jan-Willem van Ewijk / NL, SI, CH, 2024 / 104 min.
Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s fourth feature film is a thorough dissection of a father-son relationship. Reinout and Gijs meet on the slopes of an icy Alpine giant; renowned Dutch actors Reinout and Gijs Scholten van Aschat play father and son as they are in real life.
After the death of his mother, Reinout leaves for a village in the Alps where he starts working as a snowboard instructor and meditates in nature. His quiet life is upended when his extroverted father Gijs comes to visit. In no time Gijs becomes the most celebrated member of the snowboarding community and starts flirting with Reinout’s girlfriend Laura.
To temper his father’s popularity he takes him on a tough climbing expedition, high in the mountains. The more exhausted the two become and the more nature takes its toll, the more their facades crumble and the father-son conflict becomes a struggle for survival.
Preliminary film
Before the screening of Alpha. you will see the short film IJsvermaak in het Noord-Hollandsche waterland (4') from the Eye collection with images of ice fun in wintry North Holland in 1917.
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