Julia Ducournau’s ‘Alpha’ trailer is sure to disturb you.

Julia Ducournau has no interest in leaving you comfortable, with the Raw and Titane director returning to unnerve audiences again with Alpha. The Palme d’Or-winning writer-director’s latest film features Mélissa Boros as the titular 13-year-old protagonist who lives with her mother (Golshifteh Farahani). Beyond the erratic, foreboding trailer released today, the only other insights we have into Alpha’s narrative come from production company Neon: “Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.” Ahead of the Festival de Cannes, where Alpha is premiering in official competition, Ducournau shared with Hotnchill that the film’s themes are inspired by the AIDS epidemic in the ’80s and ’90s. Tahar Rahim, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Louai El Amrousy, Jean-Charles Clichet, and Christophe Perez also star. Alpha is set to hit cinemas in autumn.