ALBA FILMS

PAPER TIGER

In 1980s New York, a well-meaning but hapless engineer gets entangled with the Russian mob through his charismatic brother, jeopardizing his family and forcing him to confront his own limitations and the corrupt underbelly of the American Dream.

LOGLINE

DIRECTED BY

  • James Gray

  • Scarlett Johansson

  • Adam Driver

  • Miles Teller

STARRING

DISTRIBUTOR

  • NEON

  • Palme d'Or Nominee at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

  • Audience Award Nominee at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival

AWARDS

IN THE HAND OF DANTE

A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.

LOGLINE

  • Julian Schnabel

DIRECTED BY

  • Oscar Isaac

  • Gal Gadot

  • Gerard Butler

  • John Malkovich

  • Sabrina Impacciatore

  • Al Pacino

  • Martin Scorsese

STARRING

DISTRIBUTOR

  • Netflix

  • Premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival

AWARDS

DEAD MAN’S WIRE

The morning of February 8, 1977, Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis, entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a “deadman’s wire” from the trigger to Tony's own neck. This is the true story of the 63-hour stand-off that took the world by storm.

LOGLINE

DIRECTED BY

  • Gus Van Sant

  • Bill Skarsgard

  • Dacre Montgomery

  • Cary Elwes

  • Myha’la

  • Colman Domingo

  • Al Pacino

STARRING

DISTRIBUTOR

  • Row K Entertainment

HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST

In modern Athens, two lost souls find each other amid ghosts of the city's past, uncovering beauty and decay as they wander a world where the lines between the living and the dead are blurred.

LOGLINE

DIRECTED BY

  • Charlie Kaufman

  • Jessie Buckley

  • Josef Akiki

STARRING

DISTRIBUTOR

  • Kanopy

  • Premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival

AWARDS

ALPHA GANG

In modern Athens, two lost souls find each other amid ghosts of the city's past, uncovering beauty and decay as they wander a world where the lines between the living and the dead are blurred.

LOGLINE

DIRECTED BY

  • The Zellner Bros

  • Cate Blanchet

  • Chris Pine

  • Dave Bautista

  • Lily Rose-Depp

  • Riley Keough

  • Lea Seydoux

  • Bae Donna

STARRING

SALES

  • CAA Media Finance

  • Set to premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival

AWARDS