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The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers
BY
Dennis Harvey

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.

Aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9)
Prod. format
Duration 00:14:28
Language Swedish
Color Color
Year 2025
Latest screening Jan 25, 2025
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About the artist

Dennis Harvey

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1991, Dennis makes work about movement, identity and the city. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies and Spanish from Trinity College Dublin and a Master’s degree in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University. Dennis is a member of Noncitizen, a collective of filmmakers, artists and activists who work to highlight issues of oppression in our time, like borders, restricted freedom of movement and the right to have rights. Since 2018 he has been managing Noncitizen’s filmmaking mentorship projects for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, and building noncitizenarchive.com, an online repository for audiovisual material from migratory experiences.

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