People That Are Not Me, Hadas Ben Aroya’s first feature film, shines on the international stage. Having been selected at festivals in Locarno, Haifa and Créteil, it has just won the Talents Award at Barcelona’s 2017 D’A Festival.
People That Are Not Me is about a young woman, Joy, who cannot forget her former partner. The film follows her desperate search for love and her inconclusive encounters with emotionally unavailable men. Through the film, the director shows us an uncompromising portrait of Tel Aviv’s younger generation. She says, “I wanted to make a film about myself, about my friends and my generation. I wanted to make a film that was neither biographical nor pornographic, a film that would be representative of what many people my age are going through.”
This film was the young director’s final project at Tel Aviv University. She wrote and directed the film while also playing the principal character, Joy.
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Sources: Cineuropa, IMDB, AlloCiné, haifaff.co, dafilmfestival
