Movies: Gender roles

The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film. The main plot is a romantic comedy between Jamie's male alter-ego, "Male Jamie," and Jill, a heterosexual woman on set. The film's subplots incl...

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...

About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy and bring Jacob into disrepute. The secretary has sympathy for Jacob, creating complications when his...

In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” - men who consider themselves women and live in a...

In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner....

It is 1913. Women across the country, outraged by inequality and prejudice are beginning to rise up and demand change. In York, a revolution is about to take place as an ordinary Heworth housewife risks her life and her family to join the fight. And ...

This documentary is about sexism and masculinity. It’s also a journey through reflections on male condition, an attempt to strip away beliefs, myths and prejudices about masculinity. Why is there violence against women? We try to answer that by the h...

A compelling feature length documentary about five young people who neither feel male nor female, but rather somewhere in between....

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Amber, an eccentric child-turned-adult star, and her lover Liz are moving slow after a romantic evening celebrating Amber’s recent Oscar Nomination. Liz awakens to a strange and invasive postal worker who seems fascinated with Hollywood stars, secre...

My Shadow is Pink is about a young boy, born with a pink shadow that loves princesses, dresses & "things not for boys"....

Although Nuni has been selected to play the lead (King David) in his Jerusalem grade school play, he'd secretly rather play the princess role instead....

When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend....

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

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and experiences. They reflect about filial love, gender and isolation through her overbearing nature....

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation....

Highlighting the unique culture of the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, this groundbreaking documentary chronicles the lives of those who identify as muxes, a widely recognized third gender....

While his parents are away, a little city boy goes to the countryside. This stay will be one of initiations and forbidden games in the company of Maedeli, a little girl who is not afraid....

Daniel is committed to making career, but in an industry ruled by women, it is not easy for a man to beat his way. See Me is a film about gender roles...

An amateur filmmaker meets the film student who is supposed to edit his material, the focus of which is allegedly bears. A debate arises about the power of the voyeuristic gaze....