Gentrification Movies

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

When a Developer comes to a small town looking at a specific piece of land the locals try to warn him off because that particular piece of land is...

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...

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.

Is the city of Zurich suffering from ‘density stress’? What is it like to live in mega cities such as São Paulo, Mexico City and...

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

Amidst the ivy-draped remnants of once-notorious public housing projects, FOR THOSE THAT LIVED THERE weaves a visual tapestry, navigating the...

A journey through the fantastic and mysterious Barcelona that the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) loved so much, the city of myth...

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

The life of filmmaker Matthijs Vuijk's grandmother Coby is turned upside down when the community church she has attended all her life in the small...

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

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

On the occasion of his last regulars’ table in his old neighbourhood of Schwabing, the laconic pensioner Schorsch's pals treat him to a cab...

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

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...

An unlikely band of misfits has made their home on a roof between a feed mill and the municipal waste treatment plant. But life is good, away from...

A short documentary shot in November 2021 in Berkeley. It reflects on the ethos of privatization in American culture and how public spaces are being...