Gentrification Movies

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...

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

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

Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neighborhood, and her block was empty....

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

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...

The life of filmmaker Matthijs Vuijk's grandmother Coby is turned upside down when the community church she has attended all her life in the small...

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

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

A short documentary shot in November 2021 in Berkeley. It reflects on the ethos of privatization in American culture and how public spaces are being...

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...

A journey through the fantastic and mysterious Barcelona that the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) loved so much, the city of myth...

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

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...

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

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...

In the dilapidated industrial buildings in Upper Ladadika or in the wider area of Valaoritou in Thessaloniki, bands and creators flourished for over...

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...

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

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.