Alpha is a 2018 American historical adventure drama film directed by Albert Hughes and written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, from a story by Hughes. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as young hunter who befriends an injured wolf during the last ice age, with Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as his father.Principal photography began in February 2016 in Canada and lasted through that April. The film was delayed several times, before being released in the United States on August 17, 2018, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the performances and cinematography.In Upper Paleolithic Europe, 20,000 years in the past, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers prepares for an expedition to hunt for the coming winter's food. Tau, its chief, trains his adolescent son Keda, accepting him and another boy to join the hunting party. His mother Rho worrie