Movies: Masculinity

Manuela and her mother have different ways of perceiving the world they live in. They discuss masculinity, love, and, as if that were not enough, the importance of a sofa....

Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an wrestling gym (akhara) in the adjacent park and puts a group of young men through the moral and physical grind of wre...

A professional wrestler struggles to reconcile his onstage and offstage personas....

A pair of teenage friends grapple with their pride and masculinity as they attempt to connect on an eventful night out....

A chess game between two brothers gets ugly....

Contemporary artists decide to reverse the roles and represent fragile, graceful or strange male bodies, without hesitating to eroticize them....

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After the suicide of a childhood friend, Connor and Liam are reunited by the difficult task of choosing their friends burial clothes....

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour....

Drag Queens and their cabaret shows are well-known in France, but Drag Kings still remain very much on the sidelines. Chriss Lag traveled all over France and met 22 Kings to bring them front and center....

An experimental short film exploring fragile masculinity, small town mentality and cultural confusion, following a young Australian man on a spirit quest for significance and identity....

A tailor named Ricardo, a classic Filipino film enthusiast, embraces these toxic masculine ideas, cultures, and behaviors from the films he watches. His wife Linda and their worker Jun will soon face the consequences of these behaviors....

A young man eats alone at an LA cevicheria, processing his relationships, grief and questionable behaviours over a phone call....

When there's a shortage of bouncers at a busy inner-city nightclub, a scrawny glasswasher is asked to step in as security for the night but the eccentric patrons make it difficult to keep things running smoothly....

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of his daily life as he interacts with different forms of environmental, familial, and social influences. Whil...

After the death of his girlfriend, Daniel struggles to deal with the grief, leading to an impulsive mistake....

'star born brutal' is a diaristic exploration of masculinity after experiencing a schizophrenic breakdown. Static memories recur and dissolve in a search for understanding and quiet liberation....

Adult men grapple with social stigmas to pursue their passion for wrestling. Includes an in-depth look at wrestling homoeroticism and homophobia....

A documentarian observes their fellow gym bros behaving more... openly... in the gym than they usually are outside of it....

After a chaotic episode with his wife, Russian-Estonian worker Nikolai is left alone with their one year old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he begins to doubt his abilities as a father and furthermore, if he will ever see his wife again....