Rebecca Zlotowski's 2022 French dramedy Other People's Children follows Rachel, a Paris guitar teacher whose comfortable life quietly reorganizes itself around a child who isn't hers by blood.
What is Other People's Children about?
Rachel is content: she loves her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. That contentment shifts when she starts seeing Ali and grows attached to his four-year-old daughter, Leila. Tucking Leila in, walking her to school, worrying over her fevers — Rachel settles into a maternal role without the title to match it. At forty, with time pressing and no guarantee the relationship or the bond with Leila will last, she has to decide how much of herself to keep giving to a family she may not get to keep.
About the cast
Virginie Efira leads as Rachel, working opposite Roschdy Zem as Ali. Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira-Goncalves, Yamée Couture, Henri-Noël Tabary, Victor Lefebvre and Sébastien Pouderoux round out the ensemble, giving the film's Paris a lived-in, unhurried feel rather than a postcard backdrop.
Context & significance
Zlotowski frames the story as both drama and comedy, which keeps a premise that could tip into melodrama — a woman loving a child who is legally and biologically someone else's — grounded in ordinary daily texture: classrooms, dinners, small disappointments. It's a French production through and through, made for audiences who want character study over plot mechanics.
Watching Other People's Children on Ktime
Other People's Children streams on K-Time with a free account login, available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer to watch the film in Farsi or follow along with the original French audio. K-Time's library and interface are built around the Farsi-speaking diaspora, so the film sits alongside other festival-circuit dramas curated for that audience.