Gender and Sexuality

Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

Orla Smith / March 27, 2021

Highlights from BFI Flare 2021, from No Ordinary Man to Boy Meets Boy

Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to.

Orla Smith / March 24, 2021

In Sublet, a New York Times travel writer visiting Tel Aviv strikes up a friendship with a younger gay man whose apartment he’s subletting.

Orla Smith / March 18, 2021

In Daniel Sánchez López’s Boy Meets Boy, two gay men at a crossroads spend a summer day in Berlin together.

Alex Heeney / March 8, 2021

Han Shuai’s feature debut, Summer Blur, follows thirteeen-year-old Guo in a hot summer in Wuhan where everyone seems to be exploiting women.

Alex Heeney / March 4, 2021

In Maria Schrader’s I Am Your Man, a cuneiform researcher is torn between her ethics and the appeal of a robot lover who meets all her needs.

Alex Heeney / February 23, 2021

Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test Pattern explores power dynamics, in the lead up to and aftermath of a sexual assault, and how a couple copes.