Gentrification Movies

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

The Domino Effect is a feature length documentary film that explores the origins and impacts of gentrification and luxury redevelopment in...

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

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...

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

Facing eviction the oldest black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn relies on a passionate community in its fight for survival.

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

Right to Wynwood is an investigative documentary that explores the causes and effects of gentrification in Wynwood. Through interviews with...

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

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

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

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

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

Nicknamed "The Black Beverly Hills," View Park, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights, are unarguably the three most wealthiest black neighborhoods in...

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

A short documentary on the gentrification of Hackney.

Caged. Invisible. Shamed. Trapped. These words mark the tenants, clerks and even the owners of Chicago's last remaining Singe Room Occupancy (SRO)...

Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London....