Gentrification Movies

According to Jakarta Legal Aid Institute report, Jakarta Provincial Government had conducted 113 evictions in 2015 and 325 more places are threatened...

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 working-class Tuindorp Nieuwendam neighborhood in Amsterdam-Noord is like a village within the city. Many natives of the Northern Netherlands...

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

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

A split screen jazz and liberation film based on the words of “Un Trip through the Mind Jail” by raúlrsalinas, written in 1969 in...

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

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

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

Systemic and structural racism implemented by the city of Boston over the years has led to a dramatic stripping of generational wealth for Black...

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

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 on the gentrification of Hackney.

This highly nuanced tale of revenge follows a woman from a notorious Warsaw neighborhood, who kidnaps a kingpin of the “gentrification...

Carbon vendors fight for their rights to protect their stalls from oppressors.

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...