“Different Folks’s Kids” has secured U.S. distribution forward of its run at Sundance Movie Pageant later this month. A press launch introduced that Music Field Movies snagged rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s French-language drama starring Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) with plans to launch it in theaters and on residence leisure platforms this spring.

Written by Zlotowski, the movie tells the story of Rachel, a 40-something instructor who forges a detailed bond along with her new boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter. Their relationship evokes Rachel to think about having a baby of her personal.

“I’m very very like Rachel. I’m a Parisian lady in my early 40s. The character is a instructor, and I studied to be a instructor at college. I felt this movie might be the dream life, possibly the choice life, of what may have been for me. And, feeling that I couldn’t have a baby, I noticed the movie as a letter to myself, one thing I wanted, each as a director and as a spectator, to assist me with my scenario. As a result of I couldn’t discover this story anyplace, not in the way in which I needed to indicate it, with tenderness,” Zlotowski beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “Displaying the way you develop into tremendous hooked up to a child that you simply increase however isn’t yours. To have sturdy feminist emotions that you may be full with out kids, however nonetheless feeling the ache. This type of complexity I couldn’t discover anyplace. So I made the movie.”

“Different Folks’s Kids” screened at Venice Movie Pageant and Toronto Movie Pageant. Its U.S. premiere will happen January 20 at Sundance.

“Rebecca’s compassionate new movie is a fragile exploration of the sophisticated emotional bonds that may type between adults and the kids of their romantic companions,” stated Brian Andreotti of Music Field Movies “We now have been admirers of her work for a while, and we’re sure her newest will discover a receptive viewers within the U.S. that will probably be as moved by the movie as we have been.”

Zlotowski’s different credit embody “An Simple Lady” and “Planetarium.”