Un padre e la sua figlia tredicenne vivono un'esistenza ideale in una bellissima riserva naturale vicino Portland, in Oregon, quando per un banale errore, con le autorità alle calcagna, cominceranno un viaggio sempre più imprevedibile alla ricerca di un luogo da chiamare proprio.
E' la storia di un giovane manager multimiliardario, Eric Packer, che attraversa New York nella sua limousine, deciso ad andare nel suo vecchio quartiere per farsi tagliare i capelli. Nella sua auto superaccessoriata e computerizzata in costante contatto coi mercati azionari, l'uomo fa riunioni di affari, si sottopone ad approfondite visite mediche, ecc., costantemente protetto da guardie del corpo che sanno che uno stalker potrebbe ucciderlo. Packer entra ed esce dalla limousine per fare sesso con le sue amanti nei vari alberghi della città, e incontra in strane circostanze l'ereditiera che ha da poco sposato e i cui miliardi sta giocando e perdendo in borsa.
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Uno sguardo dettagliato al graduale declino del distretto industriale Tiexi di Shenyang, un'area che un tempo era un esempio vivace dell'economia socialista cinese. Ma l'industria sta cambiando e le fabbriche di Tiexi stanno chiudendo. Il regista Wang Bing ci presenta alcuni dei lavoratori colpiti dalla chiusura e le loro famiglie.
Di ritorno in anticipo dalla loro vacanza, Michael (Luke Grimes) e il padre (Richard Dreyfuss), due ricchi benestanti di Pacific Palisades, scoprono che nella loro casa si sono trasferiti a vivere Jonas (Thomas Dekker) e Kelly (Gabriella Wilde), due giovani innamorati senza fissa dimora. Intrappolati dai loro stessi inganni, Jonas e Kelly saranno portati ad un inevitabile e violento confronto tra due mondi molto diversi.
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
This dark comedy is set in Dunedin, New Zealand. A university student finds an old "abandoned" house and proceeds to invite other students to share. It even has running electricity. But what is the catch?
Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.
Pak Mokum Terug is the name of a group of Amsterdam activists that refuse to accept that the basic right to housing no longer appears to apply. The group’s name means “Take Back Amsterdam,” Mokum being the traditional nickname for a capital city in which today, for more and more people, a home is becoming unaffordable. Against this background, Hotel Mokum reports on the squatting of a dilapidated hotel in the city center, narrated in the voice of a fictitious activist.
Lilly is nine years old and lives with her mother and brothers Robbin and Melvin in a squatter community deep in the woods.
1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop the demolition of their building after an arson. Police forces occupy the neighborhood while the demolition continues. A portrait of an East Village that is no more. An homage to the voices and sounds of a neighborhood before its gentrification.
A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. The stations of his trip are the most important places of the autonomous scene: all in the struggle for survival. The last evictions have not yet been processed and the next ones are coming right up.
Roma Illegale talks about the birth and evolution of the rave party scene in Rome through the 90s. It describes the introduction of techno music in the Italian squat scene and the politicisation of parties, the implementation of the TAZ concept in raves with the reproportion of abandoned spaces, the way awareness was increased into the suburban youth generally indoctrinated by neofascism.
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.
This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to resist eviction from the Honolulu shoreline - resulting in displacement, arrests, and the destruction of a community.
A documentary about “1980” in Amsterdam, by Jan Groen and Hanneke Willemse Documentary originally recorded on super 8 about the squatters' movement in Amsterdam
When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale's "Beasts" horror anthology miniseries.
Discusses the squatters movement, made up of people who live in abandoned houses through necessity and in order to force change in housing policy. Focuses on Philadelphia, where Gloria Giles becomes a leader and gains a national reputation.