Gender Roles Movies

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...

Of Maine’s more than 5000 commercial lobstermen only 4% are female. The Captain celebrates that fearless minority through the lens of Sadie...

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

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint...

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

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,...

Highlighting the unique culture of the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, this groundbreaking documentary chronicles the lives of those who identify...

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

The animated story of the Hardibars and Mushamels—whimsical clay creatures who discover that gender stereotypes are not always accurate or...

Vancouver s two leading authorities on sexism in the school system, Linfa Shuto and Reua Dexter, relate their opinions on the problem and some...

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...

How do we represent the ideas of gender? This short reflects about this topic, as we see an unidentified character, suited up, and with a paper bag...

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

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...

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...

In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people...

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

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

In 1995, Adina Howard made waves in the world of music with her hit song “Freak Like Me.” Never before had a solo R&B female artist...