We don’t like to talk about it, but it can be challenging to be a man in the world today, and even more challenging to raise boys to be good men. Maybe it’s time for a conversation.
A dual coming-of-age horror story, one for a boy and one for a beast; each contending with the expectations of “masculinity” for their respective species.
“I don’t believe in love because I’ve never seen it,” responds a young woman to an unseen interviewer in the first few minutes of the movie. This bleak portrait of loneliness and social exclusion is set on the edge of a desolate swamp where an aging clown and his daughter are struggling to survive. The location could be the end of the world, a place where hope has vanished along with a belief in the afterlife and the existence of God. The two unfortunates live together without the likelihood of change, as fear, aggression, and anger take hold of them – but they also experience sudden moments of tenderness.
The depressed Sall (19) is going swimming with his friends after being isolated for a long time. He doesn’t know his place in the group and suffers from destructive self talk. Can he open up and reinvent himself or will he lose his friends because of his behavior?
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 the other in his apartment. Étienne falls back into his old patterns, his relatives only wanting an image of the virile man they have made of him and whom he is trying to embody. He becomes aware of it the moment a young man appears and thus has the chance to drop his mask, to assume who he is, in an unexpected way but unique to himself.
A talented bass player with few options in life, is sitting in with a famous death metal band. He wants to become a permanent member of the band and gives up his manhood as the price of admission
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 the University of São Paulo.
A boy who go through 4 steps of self-acceptance
After being bullied online, a young, sexually-frustrated gamer hunts down his attacker, only to discover that things are not what he expected.
A young man returns to his childhood home to improve his relationship with his father. However, when he arrives, everything seems different.
A teenager struggles with his identity after an unresolved family relationship.
For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman card.” This new film turns the tables and takes dead aim at the right’s own longstanding – but rarely discussed – deployment of white-male identity politics in American presidential elections. Ranging from Richard Nixon’s tough-talking, law-and-order campaign in 1968 to Donald Trump’s hyper-macho revival of the same fear-based appeals in 2020, "The Man Card" shows how the right has mobilized dominant ideas about manhood and enacted a deliberate strategy to frame Democrats and liberals as soft, brand the Republican Party as the party of “real men,” and position conservatives as defenders of white male power and authority in the face of transformative demographic change and ongoing struggles for racial, gender, and sexual equality.
Kevin and Mike are young men trying to get ahead in the competitive world of tennis. When one of them discovers a dangerous key that can unlock their potential, things get out of hand. Their worlds become intertwined and spiral out of control. A small series of seemingly insignificant moments weave together with devastating consequences.
A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.
In a city when the ‘men’ have to go crazy about football, Akbar has to pretend to love football in order to prevent rejection.
A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.
A troubled teenager spends the summer with his grandfather in the Ozarks, where he’s free from his mother, but not her painful past.
Fraser, 17, is a shy and introverted only child, but he speaks volumes on the court through his passion for basketball. Fraser has a chance to prove himself when the coach catches him practicing after school hours.