YRKE:EGISSØR The new generation of female directors in Europe

The Embassy of Ireland in pleased to announce the Irish entry The Other Side of Sleep in the upcoming film series YRKE:EGISSØR The new generation of female directors in Europe” organised by Cinemateket and the EU Embassies of EUNIC.

The film will be shown at Cinemateket in Oslo at 21hrs on Thursday 13 November and 18hrs on Wednesday 26 November. The film will be shown at Cinemateket in Bergen on 3 and 4 December. Tickets can be found here.

Director Rebecca Daly represents a new wave of young, female Irish film makers. Following a series of stylised and distinctive shorts, director Rebecca Daly here makes her feature debut with this dreamlike vision of an isolated and paranoid young girl. transformed by past traumas into a chronic sleepwalker, Arlene Kelly's (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) fragile psyche suffers a near critical blow when one of her excursions leads her to waking up in a forest next to the murdered body of local girl. Fearing she may have been unconsciously responsible for the act, Arlene battles to keep herself awake, lest she kill again. The Other Side of Sleep often conducts itself in silence as it expresses Arlene's fear of what she may have done and do it again.

This film was made available with the assistance of the Irish Film Association, Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland.