Movies: Masculinity

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabr...

Three men from different generations are at a crossroads and must, overnight, redefine themselves to move on to the next stage of their lives....

This anti-coming-of-age film follows Generation Y characters as they chase the desire for radical self-realisation....

A middle-aged man chases a 40-year-old man who insulted his masculinity. He is not ready for impulsive revenge, although the sharp development of events leaves no way back....

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world....

A father grows suspicious that there's an intruder in his house, only to discover something much darker....

Radhesh, a high school student in Sydney’s affluent Bondi, betrays close relationships and his own self worth in order to claw his way up the social ladder....

Étienne is dumped by his girlfriend who criticizes him for not behaving like a real guy. He is then caught up in three episodes by his past, represented by his ex-partners, Lucas and Caroline, as well as his mother and sister, who appear one after th...

BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors....

'Mod' is an attempt by the filmmaker at communicating with the young men who hang out at the ‘notorious’ water tank in her neighbourhood in Pratap Vihar, Ghaziabad. The water tank is a space that is frequented by the so-called ‘no-gooders’ of the loc...

Ten-year-old Emil lives with his dad in an apartment in Taastrup. Following the death of Emil's mother, his father struggles with the role of single parent. In an effort to deal with this lack of fatherly attention and authority, Emil has come up wit...

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

A terrible guy who lives to seek pleasure is forced to look inward when he smokes a moldy cigarette....

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It's an ordinary winter's day when disillusioned Police Inspector Azaad Singh is tasked with delivering a very important file to his superior. Traversing expanses of rural and urban Punjab along the way, he reckons with the state's past and present r...

Provocative, feminist critique of man’s technological progress....

This film is part of a project that has listened to over 40,000 people on masculinity issues and has resulted in a documentary and a tool book based on this publicly available study through an agreement with the Social Information Consortium (CIS) of...

Months after the unexpected death of his wife, an embittered, middle-aged painter flees to a cabin in rural New England where her presence, and more, waits for him....

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