Gentrification Movies

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

While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with...

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...

Josefa Centeno, an 86-year-old woman, refuses to be uploaded to a digital afterlife, facing the consequences of defying the authoritarian regime....

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...

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

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...

A documentary chronicling the history and final days of the Crayola House, a legendary DIY punk venue in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Through archival...

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

On the occasion of his last regulars’ table in his old neighbourhood of Schwabing, the laconic pensioner Schorsch's pals treat him to a cab...

“El apagón: Aquí vive gente” is a 23-minute film that explores the socio-economic challenges in Puerto Rico, focusing on...

Young activist discusses the ever-changing world he lives in with the people he cares about, in order to save his neighborhood.

Residents struggle to pay their rapidly rising rents on Wellington Street in Montreal.

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

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....

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

Amidst the ivy-draped remnants of once-notorious public housing projects, FOR THOSE THAT LIVED THERE weaves a visual tapestry, navigating the...

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