Gender Roles Movies

Growing up in 1950s England in an intolerant and uninformed world, young Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by wider...

Edo (40), a dedicated teacher who has just been laid off, struggles to regain his rights and role as a husband, which he lost when he lost his job.

An analysis of the controversy over the participation of women in the Irun and Hondarribia festivity known as Alarde. It is divided into three parts:...

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...

After an agonizing school year bruises his relationship with his well-liked older brother Jonah, socially awkward Teddy meets Cole, a disarming boy,...

Sara grew up in Yemen to a Yemeni father and a Scottish mother, and at age 17, finally decided to move to Scotland. Ten years later – 2011...

AMERICAN REFLEXXX is a short film documenting a social experiment that took place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alli Coates filmed performance...

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

Twelve-year-old Marta wants to be a footballer like her idol, Italy striker Barbara Bonansea. Her classmates reject her and her father forbids it;...

Portraits of six women and their drag king alter-egos.

A couple unearth a bizarre mould infestation threatening the sale of their home, their relationship and their lives.

'Mod' is an attempt by the filmmaker at communicating with the young men who hang out at the ‘notorious’ water tank in her neighbourhood...

At the wheel of a lorry, Manju travels the roads of India carrying goods to Delhi. As head of the company Manju is respectable, well dressed and...

What happens when you bring gender training to an elementary school? In Creating Gender Inclusive Schools the Peralta Elementary School in Oakland,...

We follow a housewife who prepares the ideal breakfast for her husband and son, as dictated by a cassette tape. While she cooks, her husband and son...

For Neema, being a woman has always meant a script: school, marriage, babies. When a doctor tells filmmaker Neema that having children might be hard,...

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

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and...