How My Octopus Teacher Depicts Healthy Masculinity
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.

Two friends, Harmeet and Irfan, from two different minority communities in India, meet after a gap of 5 years. What begins as a conversation amongst two friends catching up on old times, soon becomes an intricate and profound conversation about all the fault lines of modern Indian society as they examine all the things in our society designed to divide. From politics, religion, justice, discrimination and beyond, Bulbule offers a poignant snapshot of modern India through the lens of a conversaition between two friends.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
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