Cry Like a Guy
2024 · 5m · UK
Directed by Anthony Rubinstein
Genres: comedy, documentary
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, humorous
Actor Kieran Bew leads a gruff, goofy educational short that examines male crying from biological, sociological, and historical perspectives, charting how tears became culturally coded as incompatible with masculinity and what that costs everyone.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A five-minute film that makes male emotional illiteracy funny and then quietly devastating — the Movember brief becomes something genuinely subversive.
Anthony Rubinstein weaponizes the men's-health infomercial format against itself with Kieran Bew gamely delivering — a clever frame that may not sustain past its five minutes but lands its punchline.
A men's-health infomercial weaponized against itself in five minutes — that's a tight comic conceit that depends entirely on Kieran Bew's tonal control. Could be sharp; could be a one-joke piece.
Festivals
- Raindance Film Festival 2024
- HollyShorts Film Festival 2024