Gentrification Movies

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

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists....

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

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...

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...

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect...

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

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

A short film focusing on bawdy talk and Italian-American stereotypes of African-Americans.

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

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,...

A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.