People That Are Not Me

This is a story about young people in Tel Aviv who yearn for intimacy and are also terrified by it. Centered around Joy, who desperately tries to get her ex back and will not let him go. That is, until she runs into Nir, a chatty intellectual type, who says and does whatever he wants. Nir inspires Joy. In her attempts to be free like him, she will be cruel to others and develop an obsessive hunger for touch. The movie deals with urban loneliness within the Y generation.

Keywords

  • #AccelerateAction | Internationaler Frauentag 2025
  • Award Winning
  • Doing Gender
  • Love+: Sexuality
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Storyline: Not just Sex
  • Storyline: True Romance
  • relationship
  • urban living
  • women
  • youth

Actors

  • Hadas ben Aroya
  • Yonatan Bar-Or
  • Meir Toledano
  • Netzer Charitt
  • Hagar Enosh

Director

  • Hadas ben Aroya

Drama, Love & Sex


1h 18min


16+

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Israel
2016
Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv. She has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene.

Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv. She has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene.


This is a story about young people in Tel Aviv who yearn for intimacy and are also terrified by it. Centered around Joy, who desperately tries to get her ex back and will not let him go. That is, until she runs into Nir, a chatty intellectual type, who says and does whatever he wants.


Nir inspires Joy. In her attempts to be free like him, she will be cruel to others and develop an obsessive hunger for touch. The movie deals with urban loneliness within the Y generation.

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