Filmform is honored that two recent acquisitions from the distribution catalogue will have their world premiere at Göteborg Film Festival this weekend. The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers by Dennis Harvey and Fear Fokol by Tuva Björk on Saturday 25th (12.45PM at Hagabion) respectively Sunday 26th (2PM at Draken). More information on the two films can be found below.
World Premiere!
Saturday, January 25th, 12:45PM, Hagabion
The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers
Dennis Harvey
2025, 00:14:28
Dennis Harvey: The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers (2025, 14:28 min)
The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers is a follow-up to the Swedish Academy award-winning The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp (IDFA, 2024), which followed Sami, Simon and Hasiballah–three residents of an encampment for homeless asylum seekers which was burned down by a far-right mob in Dublin in 2023. In this film, we make the conscious decision to focus on the volunteer response to the latest policy for homeless asylum seekers, rather than focussing on the asylum seekers themselves. In early 2024, the Irish government ceases to provide accommodation to all asylum seekers for the second time. While funding charities to provide tents to homeless asylum seekers, the government simultaneously orders the authorities to prevent the asylum seekers from pitching these tents.
In the film, we follow Olivia and her small group of predominantly female volunteers, who spend their mornings and evenings on the streets of Dublin helping homeless asylum seekers try to find a safe place to sleep each night. The volunteers and asylum seekers alike face constant harassment from both far-right politicians and the police.
Team:
Director: Dennis Harvey
Cinematographer: Dennis Harvey
Producer: Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Graphic designer: August Håkansson
Colorist: Martin Steinberg
Sound design: Thomas Jansson
VFX: Lova Gadd
Distribution: Filmform
World Premiere!
Sunday, January 26th, 2PM, Draken.
Fear Fokol
Tuva Björk
2024, 00:15:00
Tuva Björk: Fear Fool (2025, 14:50 min)
A light kept on to deter makes it hard to see past your reflection. In Fear Fokol, we take a nightly ride into the fears and anxieties of Johannesburg’s wealthy inhabitants by following the work of the private security guards hired to protect them. The illusion of security slowly dissolves as we dig into a fragile climate of inequality, paranoia and masculinity in crisis.
Team:
Director: Tuva Björk
Producer: Dennis Harvey
Screenplay: Tuva Björk
Cinematographers: Tuva Björk, Sally Jacobson
Editors: Tuva Björk, Neil Wigardt
Music: Sanele Ngubane
Distribution: Filmform