Gentrification Movies

An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray...

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

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

Is the city of Zurich suffering from ‘density stress’? What is it like to live in mega cities such as São Paulo, Mexico City and...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists...

After being made redundant from her job at the coastal arcades, Helen commits a victimless crime to pay for dinner.

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...

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

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 love letter to a place that will forever be home, a visual ode, and a farewell to a neighborhood that is rapidly changing due to the forces of...

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...