Be a Man

When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.

When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.

A visitor who is unexpectedly stranded in a strange land attempts to make a home for himself in this evocative drama from German filmmaker Jan Zabeil. An actor (Alexander Fehling) is traveling through South Africa and as he makes his way through a barren landscape, he meets an aging fisherman (Sariqo Sakega) and offers him money to take him down the river. The fisherman accepts, though he doesn't understand much of what his patron has to say and is baffled by the notion of anyone making their living as an actor…..

A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.

In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds, lives Adam, a naive young man with no job and a lot of dreams. His closest friend is the Captain, an old sea wolf with many tales to tell about Singapore, Hawaii and other equally exotic and sunny places. Inspired by his stories, Adam manages to get a job in an emigration bureau and starts saving for his ticket to leave abroad.

Danny Dyer travels the country exploring the contentious subject of modern masculinity, questioning whether men have lost their sense of identity and what it means to be male in 21st-century Britain.

For centuries, parents have struggled to usher their children through the magical, often treacherous, journey to adulthood. But in mid-century America, a new form of tutelage was engineered: the classroom film. Suddenly, the prickly issues of sexual development and juvenile delinquency could be addressed in tidy, ten-minute sermons disguised as dramas. To deal with the subtleties of behavior and the importance of fitting in, "social guidance" films were made on such topics as coping with failure (Planning For Success) and teasing (The Other Fellow's Feelings).