Nowness Movies

“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...

Lou, a teenage tomboy in a small Californian town, idolizes her single father. When he has a date over one night and she is cast out of the house, Lou...

After recently going blind, a young gay man struggles to navigate his new life in the shadows.

“Sex work. The phrase evokes so much emotion, yet we understand it so poorly,” rising director Yago Hunt-Laudi wrote on an Instagram post celebrating...

NOWNESS China has released a new series of films focusing on traditional Chinese culture as defined by a new generation of young people. Young Masters...

Emerging filmmaker Jade Ang Jackman shares a fierce new film about Olympian fencer Ysaora Thibus and her journey to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Count...

Have you ever wondered what it'd be like to be in someone's else's body? Ultimately the body is a beautiful and perilous fact into whose mould we only...

An Afro-futuristic message that re-frames black cultures through poetry, movement and dance.

In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made...

At the edge of Shirahama, a coastal tourist town in Japan, an ageing scientist works to unlock the biological secret of immortality held in the life c...

In this film, Pastor George of First African Baptist Church lends us his wisdom and experience of leading a congregation through the most turbulent ye...

A 16mm account of the power of wearing a headscarf.

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

Le Labo Fragrances takes us on an intimate journey to the Australian bush to visit the source of its soulful Sandalwood scents in Western Australia, a...

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...

Nestled between the sea and the mountains in the South of France, the town of Grasse is known as the birthplace of perfume. Various flowers and plants...

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...

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