Gentrification Movies

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...

For decades, Washington, DC has been a beacon for Black culture and Go-Go music. Now, a wave of economic and cultural gentrification threatens to...

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

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

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...

Systemic and structural racism implemented by the city of Boston over the years has led to a dramatic stripping of generational wealth for Black...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive...

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

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

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...