DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Films by topic Gender/Sexuality

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  • The Birthday

    The Netherlands The Birthday follows a young Iranian man in the process of becoming a woman through a transsexual operation, up to and beyond his operation.

  • Feet Unbound

    Australia Retracing the footsteps of China’s female soldiers of The Long March, untold stories of courage and hope in the face of extreme deprivation and brutality surface.

  • Freeheld

    USA Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.

  • A Grandmother’s Tribe

    New Zealand A Grandmonther’s Tribe casts an unobstructed and compassionate lens onto the lives of two Kenyan grandmothers, who find themselves in the riptide of the AIDS…

  • My Family Portrait

    Korea Hair loss prompts director Kim to search for his father. The journey reveals complex family relationships and issues of Korean society opening up itself to the West.

  • Shame

    USA/Pakistan Nominated by Time Magazine as one of Asia’s Real Heroes, Mukhtaran Mai’s story takes on a global significance when gang-raped as punishment for a crime she…