Gentrification Movies

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...

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 loc...

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

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 the...

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive t...

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 new hom...

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

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

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 kno...

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

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

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 been cooki...

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...

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....

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

A short documentary on the gentrification of Hackney.

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,...

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 Tiflis? Filmmaker Tho...