Gender Roles Movies

Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role...

It's nighttime in 1980s Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Glittery and glamorous heels climb out of cars. Women shrouded in traditional black abayas make their...

When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her...

When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. As the Shattucks reunite to plan...

Idle hours at a summer cottage, when her husband is at work and the children busy at play, give a wife time to dream a little and reflect on her life...

Although Nuni has been selected to play the lead (King David) in his Jerusalem grade school play, he'd secretly rather play the princess role instead.

Too often dismissed, young dads across the UK are quietly redefining fatherhood. Joe Swash meets four men breaking stigmas and showing what it truly...

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

Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would...

Olle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle gets tricked by his lawyer and has to pay...

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...

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.

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...

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

The documentary features conversations with women from different age groups about their experiences with marriage and pregnancy. Shot in Batman and...

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives...