Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Alternative title: Tornar-se um Homem na Idade Média

Directed by Pedro Neves Marques

Mirene and André, a straight couple struggling with infertility, contrast with Carl and Vicente, a gay couple exploring experimental procedures to have a child. The film delves into gender, reproduction, normativity, and family dynamics.

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Becoming Male in the Middle Ages is an inventive Portuguese short film that uses speculative science fiction to explore masculinity, reproduction and the unstable boundaries of gender. Pedro Neves Marques keeps the ideas intellectually ambitious while grounding them in intimate relationships, creating a film that is unusual, provocative and emotionally more accessible than its premise initially suggests.

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

Alternative title: Tornar-se um Homem na Idade Média

Directed by Pedro Neves Marques

Mirene and André, a straight couple struggling with infertility, contrast with Carl and Vicente, a gay couple exploring experimental procedures to have a child. The film delves into gender, reproduction, normativity, and family dynamics.

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Becoming Male in the Middle Ages is an inventive Portuguese short film that uses speculative science fiction to explore masculinity, reproduction and the unstable boundaries of gender. Pedro Neves Marques keeps the ideas intellectually ambitious while grounding them in intimate relationships, creating a film that is unusual, provocative and emotionally more accessible than its premise initially suggests.