Still from Push
Still from Push
 

Push

par Fredrik Gertten
PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all.
2019  ·  1h32m  ·  Suède
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À propos du film
PUSH is a new documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten, investigating why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore. Housing is a fundamental human right, a precondition to a safe and healthy life. But in cities all around the world, having a place to live is becoming more and more difficult. Who are the players and what are the factors that make housing one of today’s most pressing world issues?    In Harlem, New York, we meet a man who spends 90% of his income on a flat. Soon, the two-bedroom will cost 3600 USD per month. His 1.700-unit housing project has just been bought by a huge private equity fund. In Barcelona, Ahmed and his family are the last left in their building where all other apartments are sealed off. The new owner has been pushing all of their neighbours out. In London, people talk about ‘bank boxes in the sky’; new condo buildings and flats sold on international fairs as investment pieces. Now many apartments in these shiny new buildings stand empty.  Enter Leilani Farha, of Ottawa, Canada. She has just sent her kids off to school when she receives an email with a startling graph. It shows the extreme difference between housing prices and wage development over a twenty year period. In the Greater Toronto Area, housing prices have increased at three times the rate of income. With a background in advocacy for the homeless, Leilani has for the past three years been the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, with the right to hold governments accountable if they don’t meet the human rights obligations in the UN Human Rights Charter.  She believes that if we really want to make change to ensure people can live in the city – all people; rich, middle and poor, brown, black and white, young and old – then we have to be  able to hold someone responsible for what is going on. She wants to confront the very idea of what the experts call the “financialisation” of the housing market. “There’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity”. Push will follow Leilani’s quest to understand the radical change that cities all over the world are now being confronted with.
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Festivals et prix
San Francisco Green Film Festival, Winner, Best Feature Film
Hot Docs, Toronto, Official Selection
Dans la presse
Review
The Guardian
Review
Now Toronto
Editor
Erik Wall Bäfving
Producer
Margarete Jangård
À propos du cinéaste

Fredrik Gertten

Fredrik Gertten est un réalisateur et journaliste suédois primé. Ses dernières œuvres JOZI GOLD (2019), BECOMING ZLATAN (2016), BIKES VS CARS (2015), BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* (2012) et BANANAS!* (2009) ont rencontré un public dans plus de 100 pays et ont été projetées dans plusieurs festivals importants. En 1994, Fredrik a fondé la compagnie de production WG Film. Auparavant, il a travaillé comme correspondant étranger et chroniqueur pour la radio, la télévision et la presse en Afrique, en Amérique latine, en Asie et dans toute l’Europe. Aujourd’hui, il combine la réalisation de films avec un rôle de producteur créatif au sein de WG Film – l’une des sociétés de production de documentaires les plus importantes de Suède, célèbre pour ses histoires locales ayant une compréhension et un impact mondiaux.

En octobre 2017, Fredrik a été nommé docteur honoraire à la faculté de culture et de société de l’université de Malmö pour son travail de réalisateur de documentaires.

 
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