Gentrification Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

In recent years, the Marga Marga Province has witnessed a drastic change in the visual and sound landscape due to urban expansion. Faced with the...

Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations for Black...

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,...

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

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

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

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

Jose Rivera is a lifelong resident of Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) but is afraid that gentrification will force him out. James Garcia has just bought...

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

An extended Black family living in View Park-Windsor Hills, California experience changes due to gentrification and reflect on their shifting...

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of...