Gentrification Movies

  • 2020
    Clarissa Uprooted: Youth and Elders Uncover the Story of Black Rochester

    Clarissa Uprooted: Youth and Elders Uncover the Story of Black Rochester

    Clarissa Uprooted: Youth and Elders Uncover the Story of Black Rochester

    02020HD

    Clarissa Uprooted depicts the Third Ward as a microcosm of Rochester’s—and many northern US cities’—history. From...

    Clarissa Uprooted: Youth and Elders Uncover the Story of Black Rochester
  • 2021
    I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood

    I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood

    I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood

    02021HD

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

    I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood
  • 2021
    Cruel Architecture, a Tool of Gentrification

    Cruel Architecture, a Tool of Gentrification

    Cruel Architecture, a Tool of Gentrification

    102021HD

    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...

    Cruel Architecture, a Tool of Gentrification
  • 2025
    Fading Frequencies

    Fading Frequencies

    Fading Frequencies

    02025HD

    In the dilapidated industrial buildings in Upper Ladadika or in the wider area of Valaoritou in Thessaloniki, bands and creators flourished for over...

    Fading Frequencies
  • 2025
    Mijn Noord

    Mijn Noord

    Mijn Noord

    02025HD

    The working-class Tuindorp Nieuwendam neighborhood in Amsterdam-Noord is like a village within the city. Many natives of the Northern Netherlands...

    Mijn Noord
  • 2018
    Ramps to Nowhere

    Ramps to Nowhere

    Ramps to Nowhere

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    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....

    Ramps to Nowhere
  • 2006
    Art Security Service

    Art Security Service

    Art Security Service

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    Art Security Service
  • 2013
    Gut Renovation

    Gut Renovation

    Gut Renovation

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

    Gut Renovation
  • 2017
    Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels

    Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels

    Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels

    02017HD

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

    Caged Men: Tales from Chicago's SRO Hotels
  • 2020
    Ayi

    Ayi

    Ayi

    62020HD

    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...

    Ayi
  • 1970
    Whose Barrio?

    Whose Barrio?

    Whose Barrio?

    01970HD

    Jose Rivera is a lifelong resident of Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) but is afraid that gentrification will force him out. James Garcia has just bought...

    Whose Barrio?
  • 2025
    Where We Goin?: The Power of Place

    Where We Goin?: The Power of Place

    Where We Goin?: The Power of Place

    02025HD

    Devin Boss is on a quest. And he wants you to join him as he explores this simple question: Where We Goin? A millennial Black filmmaker and artist...

    Where We Goin?: The Power of Place
  • 2025
    Ser Fronterizo: Crónicas de las Asimetrías Globales

    Ser Fronterizo: Crónicas de las Asimetrías Globales

    Ser Fronterizo: Crónicas de las Asimetrías Globales

    02025HD

    Ser Fronterizo: Crónicas de las Asimetrías Globales
  • 2011
    The Oven Sky

    The Oven Sky

    The Oven Sky

    02011HD

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

    The Oven Sky
  • 1996
    Moulins, du gauche au droit

    Moulins, du gauche au droit

    Moulins, du gauche au droit

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    Moulins, du gauche au droit
  • 2018
    Jewel of the Pacific

    Jewel of the Pacific

    Jewel of the Pacific

    02018HD

    A long-term resident of Pacific Beach explores the gradual gentrification of his once sleepy neighborhood in San Diego, California.

    Jewel of the Pacific
  • 2024
    Coyote Urbanism

    Coyote Urbanism

    Coyote Urbanism

    02024HD

    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...

    Coyote Urbanism
  • 2015
    Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung

    Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung

    Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung

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    Wem gehört die Stadt - Bürger in Bewegung
  • 2021
    Antídots per a un paradís fake

    Antídots per a un paradís fake

    Antídots per a un paradís fake

    02021HD

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

    Antídots per a un paradís fake
  • 2022
    Urgent message from the south about an upcoming invasion

    Urgent message from the south about an upcoming invasion

    Urgent message from the south about an upcoming invasion

    22022HD

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

    Urgent message from the south about an upcoming invasion