Writer/Director Rebecca Daly on Exploring a Community on the Edge in Good Favour

For her third feature Good Favour director Rebecca Daly, working with co-writer Glenn Montgomery, left her native Ireland, where her first two films were set, for Belgium. She also centered her story more on an ensemble, in this case a remote religious community that’s upended when a young, mysterious man appears out of nowhere and joins them, rather than the more intimate stories anchored by female heroines of her first two films.

Daly’s debut feature was the thriller The Other Side of Sleep,