Gentrification Movies

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...

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

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a...

Chronicling the events surrounding the protests generated by the proposed redevelopment of an empty lot at 105 Keefer St., located at the heart of...

Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Point, a gritty area in New York City known as the...

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