Movies: Gender

In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a ...

A birdwatching trip inspires Max to ask questions about the different expectations we have for boys and girls. His friend Moira helps him challenge what we think it means to be a boy by teaching him a few ballet moves....

When facing a path with no future or precedent success, will we ever choose to stay? Cheuk Cheung’s My Way explores the Cantonese Opera tradition of male Dan performers, men who play female roles, against the backdrop of a Hong Kong society increasin...

A collage of interviews analyzing the internet, political polarization, incel culture, the far-right, and the process by which young people can evolve towards extremism....

Repping best view to date into the world of the Indian eunuch, “Between the Lines: India’s Third Gender” may not answer all the questions it poses, but helmer Thomas Wartmann provides an intimate glimpse at a community whose members are considered pa...

An LSD-laced Internet ritual leads a young person into contact with a mysterious digital entity....

In restaurant kitchens, tight quarters, high pressure and hot tempers combine to create toxic conditions that make it difficult for anyone to survive, let alone climb the ladder to head chef. For women, the situation is even worse. Running a successf...

Esteban has left home for Spain, to study. He returns to see his parents in Paris for holidays. Between walks and Sunday lunches, Anne and Pascal do their best to adapt to their son’s new situation....

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original footage and computer-generated imagery with a series of narratives drawn from true crime confessions, ea...

How to ride a mechanical bull and not care that everyone is picturing you naked....

A young woman discovers she was submitted to several surgeries to correct her intersexual body as a baby. She has to find her own self outside gender binaries....

Darren vies for a promotion while facing sexism from his co-workers in a gender-swapped world....

A portrait of an unforgettable transgender schoolteacher in Herat, Afghanistan, who shines even with the prospect of the Taliban’s return....

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas....

Duda and Bia, two long-term friends, haven't seen each other in 12 years. They both have a disturbing memory of Duda's 15th birthday party. The party ended in heartbreak and alcohol abuse. Now, in their 30s, the two meet again, in the same house wher...

Rikkie Kollé will be the first trans woman to be crowned Miss Netherlands in July 2023. In addition to praise, 22-year-old Rikkie receives a remarkable amount of misunderstanding and hate reactions about herself. Fortunately, they have only strengthe...

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confidence. But as he finds himself pushed and pulled in all directions by the perceptions of others, can Li...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black....

A documentary about three sisters, aged 6, 9 and 11, struggling to understand why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming a woman....

A powerful documentary about the lives of teens and young adults as seen through the gender lens. Approaching society's ideas and ideals of gender through clothes, sexuality, sports, dance, safety, consumerism and emotion, the film addresses the comp...