Gentrification Movies

The twelfth edition of the International Meeting of Collective Architectures was held in Palma de Mallorca, in the neighborhoods of La Soledat, Nou...

A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.

The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism...

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

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

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

A tropical fish shop in the East End of London, the last of what used to be many. Tiny, watery dramas inside fish tanks accompany the thoughts of...

Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and...

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 prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...

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...

Facing eviction the oldest black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn relies on a passionate community in its fight for survival.

A short documentary on the gentrification of Hackney.

A short documentary about gentrification and tenant activism in one Toronto neighbourhood, "This House Is Not A Home" presents a poignant and...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

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