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Movies 101
Movies 101

"Sirāt" & "Alpha"

Published April 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM PDT
From left to right: Bruno Núñez and Sergi López in the 2025 film Sirāt; Mélissa Boros in the 2025 film Alpha.
From left: Bruno Núñez and Sergi López in Sirāt (2025); Mélissa Boros in Alpha (2025).

Some people find foreign films intolerable. Others of us seek them out simply because they tend to offer something different from the usual Hollywood fare. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two foreign films that are radically unique: the Oscar-nominated Spanish-French film Sirāt and the French film Alpha.

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