En Allemagne, aujourd'hui. Dans le cadre d'un atelier, un professeur de lycée propose à ses élèves une expérience visant à leur expliquer le fonctionnement d'un régime totalitaire. Commence alors un jeu de rôle grandeur nature, dont les conséquences vont s'avérer tragiques.

A 28 ans, Tom semble marcher sur les traces de son père dans l'immobilier véreux. Mais une rencontre fortuite le pousse à croire qu'il pourrait être le pianiste concertiste de talent qu'il rêvait de devenir, à l'image de sa mère. Sans cesser ses activités, il tente de préparer une audition.

Nouveau-Mexique, fin du XIXe siècle : Temple Jeffords, self-made man, dirige de main de maître son immense domaine, « Les Furies ». Un jour, sa fille Vance lui succèdera. Mais lorsque Temple rentre d'un voyage accompagné de Flo Burnett, sa nouvelle conquête, la tension monte. Cette dernière fait tout pour évincer Vance qui finit par la défigurer lors d'une dispute. Son père la force à quitter la maison, mais elle compte bien se venger…

Stewart Paylor est écrivain. Après le succès de son premier roman, il peine à trouver la matière pour le second. A son retour de vacances, il découvre qu'une famille a élu domicile chez lui en son absence. Il lui demande de partir, mais rencontre ses membres, puis les aide, toujours avec une certaine réserve...

What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

A Shenyang, dans la Chine profonde, Tie Xi est un gigantesque complexe industriel né au temps de l'occupation japonaise. Il a ensuite prospéré jusqu'à compter un million d'ouvriers avant 1990. Wang Bing a filmé de 1999 à 2001 la lente agonie des usines et des hommes dans l'effondrement final d'un système obsolète. En suivant au quotidien la descente aux Enfers d'une classe ouvrière autrefois promise à d'autres gloires par la Révolution chinoise, Wang Bing nous plonge au coeur d'une épopée moderne et il élève ces hommes et ces femmes au rang des plus bouleversants héros de cinéma. Chacune des trois parties intitulées Rouille (4h), Vestiges (2h56) et Rails (2h15) peut se voir indépendamment, car elles correspondent à la même histoire, mais vue d'un point différent.

A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come up with a strategy, but in the process—while the landlord and his aggressive attorney are chasing them—the tenants transform into the opposite of who they once were.

Amsterdam. Karo, dix ans, grandit avec ses grands parents dans une communauté hippie dans les années soixante-dix. Fille unique, elle mène une existence insouciante dans ce monde utopique pour adultes. La règle de la communauté veut que tout le monde partage tout dans le squat, mais il s'avère bien vite que tous ne sont pas capables de respecter ces idéaux, ce qui entraîne Karo dans le feu des conflits internes qui commencent à diviser le groupe. Karo prend conscience que rien n'est éternel.

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.

A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.

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.

Délaissé par son épouse Clotilde, Ventura, ouvrier cap-verdien de la banlieue de Lisbonne est perdu entre l'ancien quartier délabré où il a vécu jusqu'à présent et son nouveau logement dans un bloc HLM tout juste achevé. Tous les jeunes paumés que Ventura rencontre deviennent ses propres enfants...

Dans la cabane forestière de Mickey, Pluto est aux prises avec deux écureuils squatteurs, Tic et Tac.

Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.

A young woman, Abby, makes a deal with her younger brother Danny, allowing him to seek refuge at her apartment after an illegal job gone wrong. However, as days pass, she begins to question the faithfulness of his side of the deal, as well as the oddly intimate relationship he shares with his mannequin-shaped package.

Filmed for television at the legendary SO36 Club in Berlin, 1983.

Documentary about a group of young idealistic friends in their squat in Amsterdam. Chased by the police and the press, they moved from squat to squat, with a clear message: don't make the city too expensive for the new generation of Amsterdammers. But living with such a large group and the flaws of the squat begin to take their toll. When the squatters collective falls apart halfway through the film, the filmmaker is left disillusioned and decides to confront the young squatters with her feelings of disappointment.

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

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.