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.

Didi and Gogo share the same house along one of the canals that run through the capital of Thailand. The two old friends are well integrated with the local community as colorful and unusual characters pop in an out of their lives, with shocking as well as comic situations in their wake. One day, as every month, a sexy transsexual messenger delivers the check from a certain Godeaut, their mysterious partner. Because of the absurdity of receiving money from doing nothing, they decide to go looking for Godeaut. Their action is the beginning of an adventure that takes them to meet many other people, lost like our protagonists. These encounters, reminds Didi and Gogo of a painful past, sheds new light on their life and will profoundly change them.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
On March 31st, International Trans Day of Visibility, following some COVID related delays, the trailer was finally dropped, and although Taylour Paige and Riley Keough look to impress as lead characters Zola and Stefani, a brief cameo from a queer icon was what convinced me I have to see this movie.
I’m disappointed in The Woman in Cabin 10, but that’s at least in part because of my love of Ruth Ware’s novel.
A man found himself stuck inside the passage to the subway exit on the way to work.
The story of the loss of innocence of the young prey who has been maimed by the predator. *Trigger Warning, sexual abuse and assault is discussed in this short film.
A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.