Movies: Eviction

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...

Ainhoa is 8 years old and has left home with her school bag, a Playmobil figure and a secret plan....

The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own archive for Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel....

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Eccentric, non-binary fortune teller Fei Liu's way of life is threatened when figures and phantoms of present and past visit their tent and plague their subconscious, throwing their own future - and grip on reality - into turmoil....

Moving Day tells the story of the people who were left outside – quite literally – during a global pandemic. With the rise of Covid-19, shelters closed, jobs were lost, and homelessness in "Victoria B.C." (unceded L'kwungen Territories), swelled. A c...

Set in Oulton, Leeds - some of the last remaining post-war prefabricated houses in the UK are still standing. Residents of this ex coal mining village now at threat of eviction share their stories of community and family as they look to their future....

A story of resistance in the central old quarter of the city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet....

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the force of their desire, the children keep the link they have to their funny mother, despite the separa...

My Thu, an immigrant of Vietnamese origin who had to flee her country during the war, faces an eviction order from her Montreal apartment. In the midst of a battle against gentrification, she needs her daughter's help....

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"Arkansas is one of the worst places to be a renter in America. It is the only state in the US where tenants are treated as criminals for paying rent late and landlords are not required by law to maintain their properties. "Its failure-to-vacate law...

In 1980s Brooklyn, a resilient family, evicted from public housing, refuses to succumb to homelessness or welfare. Instead, they construct their own home-one scrap of discarded wood at a time....