Josh O'Connor and Letitia Wright will star in a new Irish movie about Direct Provision.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Josh O'Connor (The Crown) and Letitia Wright (Black Panther) will star in a movie about Ireland's Asylum System called 'Provision'.
The film will be directed by Irish writer and director Frank Berry, with Wright playing Ishtar Deresse who is "a young African woman fleeing persecution from criminals in her home country of Nigeria due to drug debts her deceased brother left behind".
Ishtar spends more than two years in Ireland’s asylum system known as direct provision.
"During this time she stays at various remote and over-crowded centers around the country, where she lives under a constant threat of deportation," the site says.
After the family she shared a room with is deported, Ishtar is approached by a new security guard Conor Healy (played by O'Connor).
The reporter says that Healy feels guilty about his involvement in the deportation.
He then offers Ishtar the use of the kitchen at night to cook her own food.
"Having spent time in prison, Conor empathises with the residents, and in particular with Ishtar’s traumatic past," the Reporter adds.
The pair's friendship develops as they learn more about each other, but their future is in doubt given the "threat and disruption in an environment where asylum seekers are deemed to be just numbers in a dehumanising system."
The film is due to begin shooting here in April.
