Gender Movies

Two girls in their early 20s explore topics of femininity, girlhood, and normalized violence perpetrated on women.

Sydney, Australia, 1920. A burnt female body is discovered. There is almost no evidence at the crime scene, but Commissioner Dick thinks that a...

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...

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in...

Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When...

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

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...

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...

In Swole I continue to document my commitment to an intensive and transformative gym and diet regimen, as well as the communities that form around...

This intimate look into the real world of drag kings -- women exploring their masculinity -- crosses continents, traveling through drag king...

In this highly anticipated update of the influential and widely acclaimed Tough Guise, pioneering anti-violence educator and cultural theorist...

The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender...

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by...

Being born a woman, feeling like a man & deciding to cross the boundary between the genders. That’s the path taken by those known as...

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...

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original...

For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender. And, her own identity. Trans-dyke....

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she...

Borrowing its title from the William Carlos Williams poem of the same name, Nameless Spectacle revela in the beauty of ordinary life through themes...