MAMMAL

By Rebecca DALY

LES FILMS FAUVES - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2015

A compelling and unorthodox love story between a woman who has lost her son in tragic circumstances and the relationship she develops with a homeless youth.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2016
World Dramatic Competition
Rotterdam IFFR 2016
Limelight Section
Goteborg IFF 2016
Five Continents Section
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • IRELAND, NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 99 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Rebecca DALY
    • Writer(s)
    • Rebecca DALY, Glenn MONTGOMERY
    • Producer(s)
    • Macdara KELLEHER (FASTNET FILMS), Reinier SELEN (RINKEL FILM BV), Jesus GONZALEZ (CALACH FILMS), Gilles CHANIAL (LES FILMS FAUVES)
    • Synopsis
    • Margaret, a separated woman in her forties, living alone in Dublin, learns that her teenage son has gone missing. Enduring this unsettling grief privately, Margaret escapes daily to the local swimming pool. One day at the pool she runs into Joe, a homeless youth she took care of late one night when she found him injured outside the charity shop she manages. Margaret offers Joe a room in her house and an unorthodox relationship starts to develop between them. After her son is found dead, Margaret’s ex-husband, Matt, begins to turn up randomly in her life. As Margaret and Joe’s mutual reliance grows their tentative trust is threatened by the escalation of Matt‘s grieving rage and Joe‘s involvement with a gang of violent youths.