“THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO” 2019 | 2h01’ [US] | GENTRIFICATION Scrngs

Ciclo TURISTIFICAÇÃO | GENTRIFICAÇÃO

[OVERTOURISM | GENTRIFICATION Cinema Screenings]
Curadoria de Alexandre Braga

“THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO” 2019 | M/14 | 2h01’ [US]
De Joe Talbot
Sábado Dia 27/06 às 19h30 [Saturday 06/27 at 7:30pm]
Um jovem afro-americano tenta recuperar a casa vitoriana que acredita ter pertencido à sua família em São Francisco. Entre sonho e realidade, o filme torna-se uma elegia sobre pertença, memória e deslocamento urbano.

A young Black man attempts to reclaim a Victorian house he believes belonged to his family in San Francisco. Between dream and reality, the film becomes an elegy about belonging, memory, and urban displacement.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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‍In recent years, Lisbon has become one of the most desired cities in Europe. Yet this transformation — often celebrated as a sign of modernity, revitalization, or economic success — has also brought with it an increasingly visible tension: the growing difficulty of remaining. Between unaffordable rents, historic neighborhoods turned into temporary accommodation zones, traditional commerce replaced by an internationalized aesthetic, and communities slowly displaced toward the outskirts, a strange feeling begins to emerge — the sense that certain cities are ceasing to exist as lived places and are instead becoming consumable images.

This phenomenon does not belong to Lisbon alone. It echoes through Porto, the Algarve, coastal cities, rural areas transformed into tourist destinations, and even small territories beginning to reorganize themselves around an economy of constant circulation. Overtourism and gentrification do not merely alter buildings or prices: they reshape rhythms of life,