A year after its US premiere at the 2023 Fantastic Fest, Doppelgänger Releasing is releasing You Are Not Me, the Christmas queer thriller from co-directors Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera. The film follows the story of a woman introducing her wife and adopted child for the first time to her conservative family at a Christmas gathering.

You Are Not Me stars Roser Tapias, Pilar Almeria, Anna Kurikka, Álvaro Báguena, Victor Rodriguez Enguídanos, Pilar Martínez, Jorge Motos, Alfred Picó, and Yapoena Silva.

Release Date

Directed by Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera, You Are Not Me opens in select US theaters and on VOD on December 6, 2024.

Synopsis

Aitana returns home for the first time in three years, excited to introduce her wife and their adopted infant son to her extended family and celebrate Christmas together. The family villa in the Spanish countryside is exactly as she remembers – except for the addition of Nadia, a Romanian refugee who has claimed Aitana’s bedroom, her clothes, and her family heirlooms. Why have Aitana’s conservative parents, long suspicious of immigrants, embraced the mysterious Nadia with such uncharacteristic warmth? Is Nadia a shrewd usurper, or an unwitting vessel for darker forces spreading across the land? A twisty thriller that locates the uncanny in the reflexive cordiality of the holiday season, You Are Not Me is a dark and disturbing dispatch from the most irrational realm: family.

Many of our works speak about dysfunctional families, about parents who do not know or do not want to play their role in the family and of children who suffer the consequences. This idea obsesses us a little as we, the authors, also grew up with dysfunctional families in our childhood,” says Crespo and Romera in their directors’ statement. “Furthermore, we have been teachers for two decades and have seen dozens of cases where parents marked their children’s lives for the worse.”

Official Trailer

Watch the official trailer for You Are Not Me.