Yannesh Meijman

A poetic documentary about the Amsterdam-based squat collective Hotel Mokum.

HOTEL MOKUM is a documentary about a collective that squatted an abandoned hotel in Amsterdam. The collective transformed the hotel into a home, a refuge and an oasis in a city smothered by hypergentrification. At the height of its popularity, Hotel Mokum got evicted under the guise of fire safety. The story is rooted in protest against the housing crises and the criminalisation of squatting. An intimate portrait of a hopeful collective and the city they are working to reclaim.