“Other People’s Children” has secured U.S. distribution ahead of its run at Sundance Film Festival later this month. A press release announced that Music Box Films snagged rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s French-language drama starring Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) with plans to release it in theaters and on home entertainment platforms this spring.

Written by Zlotowski, the film tells the story of Rachel, a 40-something teacher who forges a close bond with her new boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter. Their relationship inspires Rachel to consider having a child of her own.

“I’m very much like Rachel. I’m a Parisian woman in my early 40s. The character is a teacher, and I studied to be a teacher at university. I felt this film could be the dream life, maybe the alternative life, of what could have been for me. And, feeling that I could not have a child, I saw the film as a letter to myself, something I needed, both as a director and as a spectator, to help me with my situation. Because I couldn’t find this story anywhere, not in the way I wanted to show it, with tenderness,” Zlotowski previously told The Hollywood Reporter. “Showing how you become super attached to a kid that you raise but isn’t yours. To have strong feminist feelings that you can be complete without children, but still feeling the pain. This kind of complexity I couldn’t find anywhere. So I made the film.”

“Other People’s Children” screened at Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival. Its U.S. premiere will take place January 20 at Sundance.

“Rebecca’s compassionate new film is a delicate exploration of the complicated emotional bonds that can form between adults and the children of their romantic partners,” said Brian Andreotti of Music Box Films “We have been admirers of her work for some time, and we are certain her latest will find a receptive audience in the U.S. that will be as moved by the film as we were.”

Zlotowski’s other credits include “An Easy Girl” and “Planetarium.”