Gentrification Movies

Carbon vendors fight for their rights to protect their stalls from oppressors.

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

A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. The stations of his trip are...

In an historically Black neighborhood of Cincinnati, a family closes shop as new residents roll in on their Segways and craft beer carts.

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

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive...

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...

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an...

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of...

An extended Black family living in View Park-Windsor Hills, California experience changes due to gentrification and reflect on their shifting...

Villa Rodrigo Bueno, a poor neighborhood located on some sough after lands in Buenos Aires, in their struggle for urbanization and their fight...

Jose Rivera is a lifelong resident of Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) but is afraid that gentrification will force him out. James Garcia has just bought...

The Domino Effect is a feature length documentary film that explores the origins and impacts of gentrification and luxury redevelopment in...

Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw,...

Ayi comes from a rural area of Eastern China and doesn’t have the residential permit that would allow her to work in Shanghai. Yet, she has...

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

In one single shot, Obras offers a poetic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction.

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

Caged. Invisible. Shamed. Trapped. These words mark the tenants, clerks and even the owners of Chicago's last remaining Singe Room Occupancy (SRO)...

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