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Gender and Sexuality

Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

Alex Heeney / August 2, 2019

InsideOut 2019 highlights include The Ground Beneath My Feet and Zen in the Ice Rift

The 2019 InsideOut Film Festival brought together mainstream hits like Rocketman and Late Night with arthouse gems like The Ground Beneath My Feet and Zen in the Ice Rift.

Cannes, Cannes 2019

Elena Lazic / June 1, 2019

The best five films from Cannes 2019

The selection of the Cannes Film Festival was less exciting in 2019 than usual, but some wonderful gems stood out. Here are the five best.

Madeline Brewer, Daniel Goldhaber, Isa Mazzei, Cam

Elena Lazic / September 7, 2018

Cam is an intelligent and positive look at sex work

In Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei’s horror film Cam — which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal — the villain isn’t sex work, but a camgirl’s lack of protection and agency.

First Stripes

Brett Pardy / June 30, 2018

Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training

First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms.

Sundance London, WhatsNext

Elena Lazic / June 1, 2018

After #MeToo, Sundance London asks #WhatNext

At the #WhatNext breakfast organised by Sundance London, women from all areas of the film industry discussed concrete ways in which to go beyond a general awareness of sexism, and forward into actual change.

Nakhane Touré, The Wound, John Tengrove

Brett Pardy / January 26, 2018

The Wound explores masculinity and colonialism

John Trengove’s debut feature explores how colonization subtly re-defined an ancient Xhosa rite of passage into manhood.

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