Film
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- Director
- Fredrik Gertten
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 92 mins
What are cities for when nobody can afford to live in them? This Swedish documentary explores the insidious transformation of cities into financial instruments. Following Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, it reveals the full scale of global finance’s conversion of real estate into a tradable asset – a market currently valued at more than double the combined GDP of every country in the world.
https://youtu.be/k9Q4So4femM
This screening is an advance launch of Bristol’s biennial Festival of the Future City. It is presented in the year of the 100th anniversary of the start of the modern council estate, which Bristol has been marking in Homes for Heroes 100. There will be an introduction by Cllr Paul Smith, who will talk about the housing crisis in Bristol and plans for new housing, including council housing and estates.
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