man with squatter in house

A squatter spends his days with his dog in a decrepit, abandoned house until a discovery entices him out.

Squatter documents the day to day struggle of a group of homeless people living in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

After a great night of partying, the law comes down on a house of squatters...

Squatters is a feature film chronicling two days in the life of two young men and two young women, who roam the French countryside breaking into houses and living there for a few days before moving on. In the film, the group find an isolated country mansion in the south of France, break in, and spend two days involved in increasingly intense confrontations...

Struggling with addiction, Sean is thrust into the chaotic world of squatting, where every day brings a new battle for survival. Amidst unstable homes, fleeting alliances, and the search for stability in a crumbling reality, he must confront his demons—or risk being consumed by them.

"Squatters" is a film about a Shawn and his best friend Rodney two bill collectors striving to become entertainers one day come home to find their things out on the street and they no longer have a place to stay. After being forced to stay at Rodney mom house, they quickly learn that they need their own place to get away from mom's late night antics and random house guests.

A group of young artists and residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, most of them immigrants, took over two buildings in the late 80s and turned them into self-sustainable homes and community centers. The buildings, renamed Puerta 10 and Umbrella House, gave new life to the neighborhood while catching the attention of real estate developers. Catalina Santamaría has been documenting their history since 1997 when she met one of the residents of Umbrella House. In Squatters, she incorporates video footage shot by the residents, who planned to produce their own documentary, as a tribute to a community that came together to build its own utopia.

Seville, 2002. A group of young people squat in an abandoned warehouse in the Pumarejo neighborhood with the intention of rehabilitating the space and creating a social center. After 5 years of squatting, the CSOA Casas Viejas is a meeting space for the social movements of Seville, financing and supporting different autonomous groups. After resisting a first eviction attempt in March 2006, Casas Viejas is under threat having to face a trial in February 2007. This video aims to summarize what these 5 years of squatting and struggle have been, as well as to spread the resistance campaign against the eviction that is taking place today.

Squatting is a film by Larissa Matteyssen which follows anarchists and activists, who occupy different empty buildings and territories - from rooms, houses and industrial buildings to complete villages and ports. Dutch and Russian activists are telling about their experiences of squatting and reactions of authorities to self-organisation. Anti-squatters explain why they are in side of the state.