Gentrification Movies

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an...

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...

Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey as a Brooklyn 'gentrifier' to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and...

After being made redundant from her job at the coastal arcades, Helen commits a victimless crime to pay for dinner.

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism...

Set in a former train factory turned art gallery in Milan, Italy, Classe Media explores the contradictions of being a working class artist. This...

The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly...

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

The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery

A documentary chronicling the history and final days of the Crayola House, a legendary DIY punk venue in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Through archival...

Universam Grochów was a now-defunct shopping and service mall that emerged in the 1970s in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district. This...

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

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...

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...

An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray...

A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.

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