Other People's Children

Parisian high school teacher Rachel is 40 years old and single, no children. She loves her life: her students, her friends, her exes, her guitar lessons. But the desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. By falling in love with Ali whom she meets at the evening guitar lessons, she becomes attached to Leila, his 4-year-old daughter. She tucks it in, tells her stories, nurses it, and loves it as her own. But Leila is not her daughter and loving other people’s children is risky.


Rebecca Zlotowski

Born in Paris in 1980, writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski graduated from the French modern literature department of Ecole Normale Supérieure and studied scriptwriting at La Fémis. Her first feature film, which was also her graduation project at La Fémis, was presented in competition at the 49th Critics' Week and won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in January 2011, as well as the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics for Best First Film. In 2013, Her second feature Grand Central (2013) was screened at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and won the François Chalet Prize. In 2016, Planetarium screened in the Out of Competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. Her fourth film An Easy Girl premiered at the 97th Cannes Film Festival in the Director’s Fortnight section where it won the SACD Award for Best French-language Film. That same year, Canal Plus premiered the series Les Sauvages directed by her. Her last film Other People's Children, was presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival.