Welfare Leftovers dir: Hedda van Gennep DOCUMENTARY Social Issues / Politics ‘Welfare Leftovers’ looks into the life of refugees and the people who care for them in the ocumenic community called Emmaus in Eindhoven. The film reveals the harrowing reality of the asylum seekers’ situation: how they often get put out on the street and can only count on the few people who have decided to put their fellow humans first. In many cases, these helpers lack the professional training needed to deal with the refugees’ physical and emotional traumas; as a consequence, they resent the government for dumping these people in their laps, but welcome them with warm hearts anyway. In the convent where the refugees live, events unfold at a quick tempo. Emotions are captured in between the rituals of the commune, and the film shows how these people live, who they are, what they do and what motivates them. ‘Welfare Leftovers’ is about individual responsibility in a hardening society.