Nowness Movies

This film was made on the country of the Dhurga language group known as Yuin. We acknowledge and respect the people, the culture and the values of thi...

“I had no idea what I would find when we decided to fly to the distant state of Sergipe,” says director André Lion, who traveled to northeastern Brazi...

It's about a memory of a place and a time. It’s about an idea of isolation and the sea’s omnipresence. An exploration between temporary and permanent...

In the Southwest of Colombia, there is a city where salsa dancing exists in a form that is unique in its boldness and energy, yet pure in its traditio...

Hassouni, 17 years old, makes his royal blue car dance on the tarmac. Drifting is his life. He devotes all his time to it. It has become a small celeb...

With a camera in one hand and a skateboard in the other, filmmaker Adam Abada cruised from Pasadena to Santa Monica to uncover the relationship betwee...

Selasi is a 'culture man'—a Gambian musician and teacher with a mission to pass down centuries-old traditions, rituals, and rhythms. This short docume...

Giuseppe Orlandi is an alpine rescuer who has lived and worked in the shadow of The Grigna, a massif in the province of Lecco, for over fifty years. A...

Director Blake Myers crafts a portrait of the Spanish and Mexican cowboys of California, known as vaqueros, in this new documentary film. Captured thr...

Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in t...

Get lost in the 2D version of a new virtual reality film by digital artist Rick Farin. Multidisciplinary artist Gaika, who provided original music for...

Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of m...

Director duo Leonelruben traveled to Benavente, north of Lisbon, to capture the essence of Portuguese-style female bullfighting in a breathtaking docu...

“When I was growing up, my mum very rarely spoke about her life in the Philippines,” says director James J. Robinson of the inspiration behind this fi...

“Take life lightly, for lightness is not superficial, but gliding above things, not having weights on your heart.” This is the quote from Postmodernis...

A portrait of Victoria Sin, and the transformative power of drag.

“It was while I was interrogating myself on the meaning of photography as art, especially in terms of photojournalism, that I met Colin Jones,” says F...

“I have known Jon for many years. He creates for the love of it with no obvious goal. He sees the world very differently from everyone else. He tends...

Mala Hierba is a documentary about a country, a people and a miracle crop, hemp, which lies at the heart of the sustainability movement in fashion. Lo...

A portrait piece about 19 year old Kadiatu Kamara, the only female surfer in Sierra Leone.