Good White People (2016)

Parte del cuerpo de un policía asesinado, es utilizado para crear un «superpolicía» con cuerpo mecánico y cerebro humano. Aunque los científicos aseguran que el robot no tendrá remordimientos, éstos acabarán apareciendo en la memoria del humanoide.

Melody (Sarah Yarkin), su hermana adolescente Lila (Elsie Fisher) y sus amigos Dante (Jacob Latimore) y Ruth (Nell Hudson) viajan al remoto pueblo de Harlow (Texas) para montar un negocio muy idealista. Pero su sueño se convierte en una auténtica pesadilla cuando molestan sin querer a Leatherface, el desquiciado asesino en serie cuyo sangriento legado sigue acechando a los habitantes de la zona, entre ellos Sally Hardesty (Olwen Fouéré), la única superviviente de su masacre de 1973, decidida a vengarse a muerte.

Calvin (Ice Cube) ha estado a punto de perder su negocio, una barbería que ha pasado por varias generaciones de su familia, debido a las deudas compiladas; sin embargo, un golpe de suerte ha paliado sus vicisitudes económicas y afortunadamente podrá mantener su barbería abierta por más tiempo. No obstante, la fatalidad parece estar de lado del empresario y, a pesar de haber vencido el riesgo mencionado, una nueva amenaza atenta contra su negocio. La zona donde está ubicada la barbería va a ser regenerada y se van a abrir numerosas franquicias de bares, peluquerías y demás clubes de ocio, con lo que los negocios familiares del lugar corren peligro. A Calvin solo le queda ahora confiar en sus clientes y en el afecto que estos prodigan a su barbería, donde el corte de pelo se convierte en un servicio más, pues en realidad los asiduos a su negocio encuentran aquí un espacio donde desahogar sus penas y alegrías.

Jimmie Fails (Jimmie Fails) sueña con volver a tener la casa victoriana que su abuelo construyó en el corazón de San Francisco. Cada semana, él y Montgomery (Jonathan Majors), su único amigo, realizan un peregrinaje hacia la casa e imaginan qué habría sucedido si el barrio no hubiese cambiado. Cuando un día Jimmie ve la oportunidad de tratar de volver a conectar con sus raíces familiares y de pertenecer a la comunidad que tanto echa de menos, el joven muchacho vive totalmente ajeno a la realidad del mundo que le rodea.

Leo y Rey son una pareja de gays que vive en Chueca. Son un tanto atípicos, no tienen gusto para la moda, les gusta el fútbol, no tienen un duro y están pasando por una crisis de pareja, pero dentro de lo que cabe, viven felices. Al mismo tiempo, en el barrio se están produciendo extraños crímenes de ancianas. El asesino, Víctor, es el dueño de una inmobiliaria cuya máxima aspiración es convertir Chueca en un barrio modelo donde todos sus habitantes sean jóvenes, modernos y guapos viviendo en casas de lujo reformadas. Para ello se dedica a asesinar a todas aquellas ancianas que no quieren venderle el piso.

San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists. With the onset of the digital gold rush, young members of the tech elite are flocking to the West Coast to make their fortunes, and this new wealth is forcing San Francisco to reinvent itself. But as tech innovations lead America into the golden age of digital supremacy, is it changing the heart and soul of their adopted city?

On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the islands unique character. Twelve years in the making, One Big Home follows one carpenters journey to understand the trend toward giant houses. When he feels complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, he takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.

Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.

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 home in Neuperlach in the outskirts of the city by his pals. But Schorsch rather wants to take one last look at his old downtown apartment which he had renovated himself after the war, and where he had lived for almost forty years until his landlord bullied him out of there as the latter wanted to use the space for expensive luxury apartments. Because Schorsch’s wife wanted to move to “the countryside”, they thereupon moved to the Neuperlach development site in the outskirts of Munich. But amongst the uniformly looking housing blocks, Schorsch can’t even find his new apartment, and so, the grumpy cabdriver Gustl becomes his companion on a nightly odyssey.

En un emblemático barrio popular de Barcelona, amenazado por un plan de reforma, se emprende la construcción de un bloque de viviendas. Queríamos conocer la intimidad de una construcción, así que nos metimos ahí, cuando ese espacio era todavía un solar donde los chavales jugaban a fútbol. Sobre este terreno buscamos la forma de convivir, conocer y rodar -así, por este orden- que nos permitiera abordar tanto el anecdotario de la propia obra como el que ésta generaba a su alrededor; en esa cotidianidad quebrada por el estruendo de los derribos, entre sus vecinos, en el barrio (de hecho la imagen del barrio se concretó en la del puñado de rostros que a nuestros ojos lo representaban). En este proceso, pronto advertimos que la mutación del paisaje urbano implicaba también una mutación en el paisaje humano, y que en este movimiento se podrían reconocer ciertos ecos del mundo. Sobre estos cimientos construimos una película.

Director Kelly Anderson's personal journey as a Brooklyn 'gentrifier' to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The film reframes the gentrification debate to expose the corporate actors and government policies driving displacement and neighborhood change.

A tropical fish shop in the East End of London, the last of what used to be many. Tiny, watery dramas inside fish tanks accompany the thoughts of local fish-keepers, while father and son Big Tel and Little Tel work to keep the shop alive.

The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly changing London.

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect through acts of kindness both big and small.

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

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

In 1989, together with a group of female friends, Su Friedrich rented and renovated an old loft in Williamsburg, an unassuming working-class district of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists’lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five years documenting with her camera the changes in the area. She shows the demolition of industrial buildings and the construction of trendy new apartments for wealthy clients, watching old tenants leave and new inhabitants arrive. As she keeps meticulous record of developments, the extent and speed of the upheaval becomes clear. Her own tenancy agreement expires too and so her documentary images and trenchant commentary become the tools of her growing anger. A documentary of small changes evolves into an historical record of New York, a case study of the rapid gentrification of our cities.

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.

Nicknamed "The Black Beverly Hills," View Park, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights, are unarguably the three most wealthiest black neighborhoods in the world. Residences from the neighborhoods tell stories of their personal upbringings, past and present history of their neighborhoods, and their own views and opinions of the changing demographics.