Movies: Masculinity

Compared to girls, research shows that boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behaviour disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out of school, binge drink, commit a violent crime, and/or take their own lives. The Ma...

Tough talk takes a soft turn as Nate, played by comedian Natalie Palamides, explores humor, heartbreak, sexuality and consent — with a live audience....

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...

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the br...

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Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of bein...

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recup...

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to red...

Masculinity, race and boyhood simmer in this stylish slow-cinema debut about a Filipino-Australian father and his six-year-old son, who are navigating a family divorce. Exploring the complexities of family, society and culture that shape young Filip...

A one night stand gets competitive when two guys find out they are both tops....

Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority"....

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....

Hop, a wanna-be-alpha bunny, and his timid son, Juniper, struggle to see eye to eye on their first hunting trip together, as Hop expects his son to take on a role that so clearly goes against his nature....

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

Afan (19) grapples with heartbreak as he embarks with close friend Kush (30) on a day's trip to celebrate his upcoming marriage. Tensions rise, forcing them to confront their past and mend their bond, amidst their shared grief and hope for a brighter...

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...

At times of changing gender roles, a tinder date encourages young Leonid to live his own definition of "masculinity". A current reflection on love, sexuality and role models....

During the final games of his high school basketball season, Tom Irvin is faced with an encounter of sexual misconduct. An affair that leaves Tom losing grip with reality and struggling to regain his self-identity....

Carlos lives in a boarding school in the centre of Bogotá and longs to spend Christmas with his family. The circumstances around him force him to assume the male stereotype, in open contradiction to his true being. In private, Carlos acknowledges his...

Carl is forced to confront his idea of masculinity when an obsession with a mysterious member of his badminton club spirals out of control....