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Documentary Push Directed by Fredrik Gertten Opens

SYNOPSIS

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH

PUSH is my journey to understand why life in our cities is getting so unaffordable. For two years I filmed with Leilani Farha, we had daily Whatsapp chats discussing the issue. Early on it was clear that we were lacking a language to describe the ongoing development. Words like gentrification are not sharp enough at describing the issue. It’s a global disease when homes are turned into assets in a financial game. The gentrification talk creates a divide. Blaming a hip coffee shop or an art gallery for pushing out the poor is just silly. There are other – much stronger forces in action. If citizens and politicians want to push back the invasion of speculative money from hedge funds and criminals. we need a deeper understanding.


My hope is that PUSH will form a platform for better conversation. That people in countries around the world realize that the development in their town is not unique. There’s a global pattern, a business model repeated over and over again. A new kind of landlord, a hedge fund whose customers are not the tenants but the investors. PUSH is now out on a global journey, at cinemas and festivals. Everywhere, I meet people who through the film now feel less lonely. Just more angry. 

– FREDRIK GERTTEN

PUSH also includes interviews and participation of thought leaders:
LEILANI FARHA, SASKIA SASSEN, JOSEPH STIGLITZ and ROBERT SAVIAN

THEATER LIST NOW:

New York, NY
September 25-October 8, 2020
Anthology Film Archives *

*Part of the series, “Home Truths:
Films About Housing Rights, Displacement,
and the Meaning of Home”!

San Francisco, CA
September 25-October 8, 2020
Roxie Theater

Berkeley, CA
September 25-October 8, 2020
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood 

Sebastopol, CA
September 25-October 8, 2020
Rialto Cinemas Sebastopol

Los Angeles, CA
September 25-October 8, 2020
Laemmle Theatres

Santa Fe, NM
September 25-October 8, 2020
Violet Crown

Austin, TX
September 25-October 8, 2020
Violet Crown

Charlottesville, VA
September 25-October 8, 2020
Violet Crown

Columbus, OH
September 25-October 8, 2020
Gateway Film Center

Chicago, IL
October 2-15, 2020
Music Box Theatre
  

Minneapolis, MN
October 22-31, 2020
Twin Cities Film Festival

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