Gentrification Movies

Once thriving, a dead mall in upstate New York is now home to a ragtag flea market, living proof that the American Dream is in perpetual decay....

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

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

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

A love letter to a place that will forever be home, a visual ode, and a farewell to a neighborhood that is rapidly changing due to the forces of...

Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Point, a gritty area in New York City known as the...

With its fluid arrangement of black and white scenes paired with an immersive soundscape, Je me souviens d’un temps où personne ne...

The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.

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...

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....

Set in the colorful and chaotic neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a solitary coyote searches for a new place to live after being violently displaced. As...

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...

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

A dystopian short film about the gentrification processes in a city that could be Buenos Aires.

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

A short documentary on the gentrification of Hackney.

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

In an historically Black neighborhood of Cincinnati, a family closes shop as new residents roll in on their Segways and craft beer carts.