Gentrification Movies

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

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....

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

In an historically Black neighborhood of Cincinnati, a family closes shop as new residents roll in on their Segways and craft beer carts.

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

In one single shot, Obras offers a poetic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction.

A dystopian short film about the gentrification processes in a city that could be Buenos Aires.

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...

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

Facing eviction the oldest black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn relies on a passionate community in its fight for survival.

Berlin is changing. The film maker interviewed and accompanied real estate agents and investors and filmed tenants struggling to cope with the...