Gentrification Movies

When a Developer comes to a small town looking at a specific piece of land the locals try to warn him off because that particular piece of land is...

After a long absence an artist returns to her gentrified community where she explores her social position and complicity in the rapid changes.

Diosdado spends his time debating with customers, particularly with his boss, who holds strong opinions about the financial aspects of the...

A short film focusing on bawdy talk and Italian-American stereotypes of African-Americans.

An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from...

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the islands unique character....

In the 1950s, Seattle had plans to build one of the densest networks of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor...

A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists....

In the dilapidated industrial buildings in Upper Ladadika or in the wider area of Valaoritou in Thessaloniki, bands and creators flourished for over...

In recent years, the Marga Marga Province has witnessed a drastic change in the visual and sound landscape due to urban expansion. Faced with the...

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London...

After moving to a small mountain community, a troubled writer entangles himself in a new neighbor's abusive family situation.

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....

A dystopian short film about the gentrification processes in a city that could be Buenos Aires.

On the occasion of his last regulars’ table in his old neighbourhood of Schwabing, the laconic pensioner Schorsch gets paid a cab drive to his...

Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey as a Brooklyn 'gentrifier' to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and...