I’M THE SAME, I’M AN OTHER
Caroline Strubbe
A man in his thirties is on the run with a young girl. As they take a ferry to the UK, traces of a common past come to light – a past filles with loss and sorrow. Fleeing in secret, they end up hiding in a small apartment at the seaside, where they live day to day, exploring each other’s emotional territories. Mourning will bind them, but is this alliance of dependence appropriate for them and for the outside world?
Selected at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the Tallinn International Film Festival and at the Rotterdam International Film festival in 2013.
STARRING
Kimke Desart
Zoltan Miklos
Lynn Van Royen
DIRECTOR
Caroline Strubbe
WRITERS
Caroline Strubbe
SOUND
Senjan Jansen
PHOTOGRAPHY
David Willimason
EDITING
David Verdurme
MUSIC
Albert Markos
Eliane Radigue
PRODUCER
Minds Meets
DISTRIBUTOR
New Europe Film Sales
Caroline Strubbe
Caroline Strubbe studied film at the Escuela Cinematográfica in Barcelona and then at the IAD in Louvain-la-Neuve. After completing her studies, she produced Le garçon d’appartement, a play directed by Gérard Lauzier. At the same time, she co-directed Une mouche dans la salade, Shocking Manjira and the Cardboard Box and Un portrait de la Belgique, three successful documentaries broadcast on Arte. Her first short fiction film, Melomen, won several awards at festivals around the world. Two years later, her medium-length film Taxi Dancer won the Jury Special Mention at Sundance.
This was followed by her trilogy, filmed over 20 years… Trying to Forget to Remember, presented at MoMA in March 2026, which began with Lost Persons Area (2009), continued with I’m the Same, I’m an Other (2013) and concluded with The Silent Treatment.
FILMOGRAPHY
1993 : Melanomen (short film)
1998 : Taxi Dancer (featurette)
2009 : Lost Persons Area (feature film)
2025 : The silent treatment (feature film)