Gentrification Movies

A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.

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

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

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

While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with...

Comedian Phil Pointer jokes about his inner-city upbringing, gentrification and the oddities of interracial dating in his debut comedy special, Sweat...

Universam Grochów was a now-defunct shopping and service mall that emerged in the 1970s in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district. This...

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

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

Set in a former train factory turned art gallery in Milan, Italy, Classe Media explores the contradictions of being a working class artist. This...

A sickly tourist visits Berlin sights quickly with an angelic teleport guide.

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

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London...

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

In the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia three streets meet to form a bustling intersection of born-and-raised...

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...