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 reflects...

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

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

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 soc...

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

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....

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

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

Villa Rodrigo Bueno, a poor neighborhood located on some sough after lands in Buenos Aires, in their struggle for urbanization and their fight against...

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

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 new hom...

The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a...

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

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 kno...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 fi...

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,...