Document Rent Rebels

Rent Rebels
Dirs. Gertrud Schulte Westenberg & Matthian Coers, Germany 2014, 78m, Scottish Premiere

Berlin: in the last few years the capital has changed a lot. Flats that were once considered undesirable are now being purchased as secure investments for the upwardly mobile. The near-chronic shortage of affordable housing in the large metropolis that is Berlin has led to street protests.

Rent Rebels is a kaleidoscope of the tenant-led fight against displacement from their neighbourhood communities: ranging from the occupation of the town hall to a camp at Kottbusser Tor, anti-eviction activism to the struggle of senior citizens for their community centre and for age-appropriate flats, a new urban protest movement is on the rise.