The Zellner brothers, David and Nathan, follow up their acclaimed Sasquatch Sunset with Alpha Gang, an outlandish sci-fi comedy premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. The film assembles a starry international cast for a deliberately absurd tale of alien invaders posing as humans, and its willingness to commit fully to the bizarre premise makes it a standout for fans of unconventional festival fare.

Shot in Croatia, the story follows the Alpha Gang, extraterrestrials disguised as a 1950s-style biker/greaser gang, who gather in a deserted castle while a human civil war rages outside. The cast includes Kelvin Harrison Jr, Riley Keogh, Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux and Chris Pine, whose characters grapple with human customs, emotions and pop music as they scheme to take over Earth, only for the plot to spiral further when a rival alien faction, the Beta Gang, is revealed to have infiltrated their ranks.