Gentrification Movies

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...

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...

A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby.

Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place for new visions and concepts of city - a place...

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

Over the course of over six decades, Honest Ed's became a Toronto Landmark. The neighbourhood it left behind when it closed its doors in 2016...

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...

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect...

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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