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Antidepressant

OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN
LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES

• Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
• FRANCE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 103’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Rebecca Zlotowski
• Director of Photography: George Lechaptois
• Editing: Géraldine Mangenot
• Music: ROB
• Cast: Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira-Gonçalves, Yamée Couture, Henri-Noël Tabary, Victor Lefebvre, Sébastien Pouderoux, Michel Zlotowski
• Producer: Frédéric Jouve
• Production Co.: Les Films Velvet
• World Sales: Wild Bunch
• Turkish Rights: Bir Film

To love other people’s children is risky. Rachel is 40 years old, with no children. She loves her life: her high school students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she becomes attached to Leila, his 4-year-old daughter. She tucks her into bed, cares for her, loves her like her own. ’A stepmother without being a mother herself. As painfully commonplace as male impotence, this situation was nevertheless the starting point of a story worthy of being told,’ says Rebecca Zlotowski for her fifth feature which premiered at Venice. ’I felt that I was filming this love letter in solidarity with childless women.’ Zlotowski delivers a deeply personal, intimate and profoundly moving story of longing and belonging, which she shot during her unexpected pregnancy.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.