People That Are Not Me

description

Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv who has a love-hate relationship with the city’s casual sex scene. Her whole world is her apartment, which happens to be located on the same street where her ex lives. After her failed and desperate attempts to get him back, Joy becomes inspired by Nir, a chatty intellectual type, who says and does whatever he wants. Dealing with themes of urban loneliness within the Y generation, PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ME centres on the young people of Tel Aviv who yearn for intimacy and are also terrified by it.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Locarno Film Festival 2016
Haifa Film Festival 2016
Göteborg Film Festival 2017

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Born in 1988, Hadas Ben Aroya lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2014, Ben Aroya graduated from the
Steve Tisch School of Film at Tel Aviv University. While studying she wrote and directed a short
film called SEX DOLL that participated in the Tel Aviv international student film festival and won the Gold Panda, Sichuan. PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT ME (2016) is her feature film debut.