Gentrification Movies

  • 2024
    Berlin Utopiekadaver

    Berlin Utopiekadaver

    Berlin Utopiekadaver

    02024HD

    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...

    Berlin Utopiekadaver
  • 2013
    Gut Renovation

    Gut Renovation

    Gut Renovation

    4.52013HD

    Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 years, the filmmaker was one...

    Gut Renovation
  • 2020
    Seattle Freeway Revolt

    Seattle Freeway Revolt

    Seattle Freeway Revolt

    02020HD

    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...

    Seattle Freeway Revolt
  • 2024
    That World Is Gone

    That World Is Gone

    That World Is Gone

    02024HD

    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...

    That World Is Gone
  • 2011
    The Oven Sky

    The Oven Sky

    The Oven Sky

    02011HD

    The Oven Sky (2011) is set in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood where newcomers pressure a longtime resident to turn her yard filled with lawn orname...

    The Oven Sky
  • 2024
    Beau Ideal

    Beau Ideal

    Beau Ideal

    02024HD

    After moving to a small mountain community, a troubled writer entangles himself in a new neighbor's abusive family situation.

    Beau Ideal
  • 2016
    Tower XYZ

    Tower XYZ

    Tower XYZ

    52016HD

    Accompanied by a lilting soundtrack, characters wander through London's concrete jungle as the narrator reflects on the current state of the city and...

    Tower XYZ
  • 2024
    The Little Ancestor

    The Little Ancestor

    The Little Ancestor

    32024HD

    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...

    The Little Ancestor
  • 2004
    Obras

    Obras

    Obras

    72004HD

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

    Obras
  • 2017
    Denim

    Denim

    Denim

    02017HD

    Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London. Through...

    Denim
  • 2022
    Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)

    Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)

    Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)

    02022HD

    Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)
  • 1983
    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    01983HD

    Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 fi...

    OK Today Tomorrow
  • 2021
    Clash on Keefer

    Clash on Keefer

    Clash on Keefer

    02021HD

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

    Clash on Keefer
  • 2019
    Ladrillos capitales

    Ladrillos capitales

    Ladrillos capitales

    02019HD

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

    Ladrillos capitales
  • 2014
    We Came to Sweat

    We Came to Sweat

    We Came to Sweat

    12014HD

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

    We Came to Sweat
  • 2022
    Bestseller Barcelona: The World of Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Bestseller Barcelona: The World of Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Bestseller Barcelona: The World of Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    5.52022HD

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

    Bestseller Barcelona: The World of Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • 2021
    Antídots per a un paradís fake

    Antídots per a un paradís fake

    Antídots per a un paradís fake

    02021HD

    The twelfth edition of the International Meeting of Collective Architectures was held in Palma de Mallorca, in the neighborhoods of La Soledat, Nou Ll...

    Antídots per a un paradís fake
  • 2024
    The Dead River

    The Dead River

    The Dead River

    02024HD

    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...

    The Dead River
  • 2018
    I Am Gentrification. Confessions of a Scoundrel

    I Am Gentrification. Confessions of a Scoundrel

    I Am Gentrification. Confessions of a Scoundrel

    02018HD

    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...

    I Am Gentrification. Confessions of a Scoundrel
  • 2017
    Fishtown Soldier

    Fishtown Soldier

    Fishtown Soldier

    02017HD

    In the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia three streets meet to form a bustling intersection of born-and-raised lo...

    Fishtown Soldier