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2017 | 100 MIN | DRAMA, THRILLER IRELAND, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, DENMARK | ENGLISH

GOOD FAVOURA FILM BY Rebecca Daly

(the other side of sleep, mammal)

LOGLINEA remote Christian community experiencing a crisis of faith finds new hope in the arrival of a mysterious young man.

SYNOPSISSecluded deep in the forests of Central Europe, a strictly devout Christian community is suffering a crisis of faith following

a series of unsettling incidents and a devastating loss. When a young man stumbles onto their compound bearing scars

of trauma, the community welcomes him in and nurses him back to health. He is slowly initiated into their farming life

and scriptural regime, but the mystery of where he comes from only grows. After his actions avert a potential tragedy, the

community puts him to the test as it desperately seeks answers.

REBECCA DALYDIRECTOR/WRITER

Rebecca Daly studied theatre at Trinity College and completed an MA in Film (DIT). Her first short, Joyriders (2006), funded by the Irish Film Board, won the IFTA for Best Short and several international awards. Her first feature film, The Other Side Of Sleep, was selected for the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency and premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and in the Discovery section of Toronto Interna-tional Film Festival (2011).

Rebecca was invited to participate in the first Berlin Film Festival Residency with her second feature Mammal. Starring Rachel Griffiths, Mammal premiered at the Sun-dance Film Festival (2016) and the Rotterdam Film Festival (2016).

PRAISE FOR DALY’S PREVIOUS FILMS

THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP“Daly’s haunting debut flirts with dreams and reality; it is under-stated yet powerfully etched... A notable debut.” SCREEN DAILY

MAMMAL“Uncompromising and Elegant. Worthy of celebration... Griffiths and Keoghan share a brittle, inquisitive chemistry.”VARIETY

“An echo of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, the performances create a rock solid centre to this delicately handled immersion in love and grief.” SCREEN DAILY

World Dramatic Competition

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENTWith Good Favour, I wanted to explore the effects of religion, both good and bad, on a community: its many contradictions and moral ambiguities, the dangers of misinterpretation or fundamental approaches, its mythology and symbolism - but also the reassuring quality of ritual, the beauty of belief and wonder.

My grandmother had a very strong faith that was able to contain her acknowledgement of various abuses within the church. Her life was marked by a sense of acceptance and an extraordinary ability to endure. She had a quiet but extremely powerful presence. Her capacity to hold all this contradiction within her fascinated me.

I wanted to look at the arbitrary nature of many of the beliefs inherent in organised religion, and more than that, to represent their assimilation into the governance of the everyday life of a person of faith. What extremities of experience can cause a rupture in this happy co-existence of the individual, the community, and God? Much of the tension in the film derives from this: the conflict between personal need, and even at times reason, and the behavioural parameters within which the community is required to live. The audience might wonder if these rules are the manifestation of a profound faith in God or if their key purpose is to maintain the integrity of the community.

Being an Irish woman, I’m acutely affected by a society that lives within the unimaginative, peremptory constraints of church doctrine. In Ireland, the church and state are still tightly woven to the point that the UN has called Ireland out on its violation of human rights, as abortion is illegal in Ireland. Meanwhile, parents baptise their children to ensure them access to education because of the lack of sufficient alternatives to Catholic schools.

At the same time, I wanted to open the story up to more than just an Irish or religious context. At the heart of it, the film is really about living within or living outside of a community. We have deliberately left the particulars of the religion vague so that it may be read as Christian but with no more specificity than that. Religion is a function of the community, sustaining it in the same way as, say, agriculture. For me, every film comes out of some aspect of my experience, but in its development, it is necessarily removed from its source, taking on a life of its own.

I am interested in how established belief systems, be they religious or secular, can bend perception. Typically, we experience the world as we expect to and subconsciously adapt our understanding of events to reinforce our preconceptions. In Good Favour, the community not only does this but its determination to maintain itself means that this tendency strays far into the realm of conscious action. Every occurrence can be suitably interpreted. Meaning and significance are created rather than encountered.

CAST

LARS BRYGMANN MIKKEL Lars Brygmann is a Danish actor whose big breakthrough came with the award-winning drama series Unit One (2000/04), playing detective La Cour. Since then, he has starred in several TV series such as Forsvar, Lulu & Leon, and the internationally acclaimed Borgen. His other credits include The Charmer (dir. Milad Alami), Across the Waters (dir. Nicolo Donato), The Great Bird Race (dir. Christian Dyekjaer), A Funny Man (dir. Martin Zandvliet), Applause (dir. Martin Zandvliet), White Night (dir. Jannik Johansen), The Inheritance (dir. Per Fly), Stealing Rembrandt (dir. Jannik Johansen), The Bench (dir. Per Fly), and The Celebration (dir. Thomas Vinterberg).

VINCENT ROMEO TOM Vincent Romeo was born in Belgium in 1993, his native languages are French and Dutch. After a noticeable small part in the TV series Public Enemy (2015), Vincent got his first lead part in Good Favour by Rebecca Daly.

CLARA RUGAARDSHOSANNA Clara Rugaard Larsen is a Danish- British actress. Her credits include Good Favour (dir. Rebecca Daly), Still-Star Crossed (TV Series), Moana (Disney – Danish version), The Lodge (TV Series), and My African Adventure (dir. Boaz Davidson). She is currently shooting Teen Spirit with Elle Fanning, with Fred Berger of Automatik (La La Land) producing and Max Minghella directing.

ALEXANDRE WILLAUMEHANS Alexandre is a Danish actor with a prolific career in film, television, and theatre. His most recent credits include Tombraider (dir. Roar Uthaug), Good Favour (dir. Rebecca Daly), Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets (dir. Luc Besson), Where Have All the Good Men Gone (dir. René Frelle Petersen), Home Fires (dir. Robert Quinn), Crossing Lines (TV Series), and The Last Kingdom (dir. Nick Murphy).

VICTORIA MAYER MARIA Victoria is a German actress with many roles for both the screen and the stage. Previous credits include Good Favour (dir. Rebecca Daly), Whatever Happens (dir. Niels Laupert), Berlin Station (TV Series), Tour de Force (dir. Christian Zubert), Stolberg (TV Series), The Cloud (dir. Gregor Schnitzler), and Alone (dir. Thomas Durchschlag)

SAVAGE PRODUCTIONS Savage Productions Ltd was set up in April 2008 with the aim to grow and develop fresh Irish talent, telling Irish stories that break out into the international market, and to support artists who operate in the world of skewed and elevated genre. The company directors are producer/managing director John Keville and producer Conor Barry. Its’ first film was Savage, written and directed by Brendan Muldowney, which was acquired by Cinemavault and won multiple awards. In 2014, Savage Productions co-produced a transmedia feature film sold by The Match Factory – Brand New U (dir. Simon Pummell). In 2015, Savage Productions completed the documentary Life is Sacred in co-production with Danish outfit Final Cut for Real (dir. Andreas Dalsgaard). Also that year, Savage presented director Mark Noonan’s award winning debut feature film feature You’re Ugly Too, starring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), which premiered at the Berlinale. Pilgrimage (dir. Brendan Muldowney), which stars Tom Holland (Spider-Man Homecoming), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) ,and Jon Bernthal (Fury, The Punisher), has just been completed, and is being sold by US Sales Agent XYZ Films. Pilgrimage will have its US release through RLJ Entertainment in the summer of 2017.

VIKING FILM COMPANYViking Film is the Amsterdam based film production company founded in 2011 by Marleen Slot. International in scope,

Viking Film wants to make high-quality films for both Dutch and international audiences with a special focus on arthouse, children films and animation films. Viking Film recently finished the feature films Oscuro Animal (Felipe Guerrero, IFFR Tiger Competition 2016), Siv Sleeps Astray (Catti Edfeldt, Lena Hanno Clyne opening film Berlinale Generation K+), Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro, selection Venice Orizzonti and TIFF Competition 2015), Zurich (Sacha Polak, Berlinale Forum winner CICAE Art Cinema Award 2015), Summer Of Sangaile (Alanté Kavaïté, Sundance Competition and Berlinale Panorama 2015). Fur-thermore Viking Film worked on the feature documentary New Boobs (Sacha Polak) and the co-production Leones (Jazmin Lopez, Venice Film Festival 2012). Marleen worked as a producer at Lemming Film for many years. She is chairman of the Netherlands Producers association, part of EAVE and member of the board of ACE. In 2013, she was selected Producer on the Move during the Cannes Film Festival.

WRONG MENWrong Men was founded in 2009 by Alexandra Boussiou and Benoit Roland, both film producers. It is a company dedicated to the development and production of feature films, short films and documentaries. With a contiuous presence in interna-tional festivals and markets, and with a strong network in European film markets for the past decade, Wrong Men is focusing mainly in International co productions with a global appeal. Their films include Pilgrimage (dir. Brendan Muldowney), Wrong Elements (dir. Jonathan Littell), Sparte (dir. Noëmie Nicolas), Prejudice (dir. Antoine Cuypers), Clear Years (dir. Frédéric Guil-laume), and Parasol (dir. Valéry Rosier).

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GLENN MONTGOMERY // Co-Writer Glenn Montgomery is a Northern Irish writer who graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2002 with a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies. Previous work includes the award winning short film Joyriders and the play The Lament. The Other Side of Sleep was his feature film debut, which was screened at the Director’s Forthnight in Cannes in 2012. Most recently, he co-wrote Rebecca Daly’s second feature film Mammal, staring Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Rachel Griffiths, which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 in the World Dramatic Competition.

TIBOR JORIS DINGELSTAD // Cinematographer Tibor Joris Dingelstad was born in 1987 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2010. Dingelstad is known for his work on features including Helium (the Netherlands, 2014), for which he won a Golden Calf for Best Camera at the Netherlands Film Festival, and Under the Pyramid (Sweden, 2015).

TONY CRANSTOUN // Editor Tony Cranstoun is a BAFTA and ACE winning editor from Ireland. His previous credits include I Give It a Year (dir. Dan Mazer), Love, Rosie (dir. Christian Ditter), Mr. Bean’s Holiday (dir. Steve Bendelack), and The Forsyte Saga (TV Series).

RUTGER REINDERS // Composer Rutger Reinders is a Netherlands based composer. He won the Golden Calf for Best Music for Zurich (dir. Sacha Polak). His other credits include Boys (dir. Mischa Kamp), Sevila (dir. Bram Schouw), and Broer (dir. Sacha Polak).

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