French Film Festival Aotearoa 2023: Other People's Children

This romantic drama follows a woman whose outlook on life is upended when she starts a passionate relationship with a single father of one.

40 year old Parisian high school teacher Rachel loves her life: she's inspired by her work and is close to her friends, sister and widowed father. When she meets a man in her community guitar class - the charming and recently separated Ali - Rachel commences a relationship not only with him, but also his four year old daughter, Leila. Gradually, she's drawn into their world, helping Ali by collecting Leila after school and looking after her on the nights she stays with them; the three start to share holidays together.
But there can be no denying Leila already has a mother and Rachel's yearning for a family of her own is only growing stronger....