Nowness Movies

Meet Giovanni Mancusou, a small-town Italian man who lives on Italy's Mediterranean coast. The wisened Calabrian invites the viewer into his sun-washe...

Thirteen-year-old skateboarder Yumeka Oda was set to represent her country on home soil at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but with this year’s games postpon...

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...

Richard Herrera is a champion swimmer from Coahuila, Mexico, who has won gold at numerous international events. Earnest, passionate and devoted to his...

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...

Uprooted from the Ivory Coast and sent to live in Denmark as a child, professional boxing champion Landry “Hardkore” Kore tells the story of his eight...

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...

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

Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu scriptutres...

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...

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...

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

"I was born and raised along the United States-Mexico border and inhabited both countries while growing up," says Leo Aguirre, a first-generation Mexi...

“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...

“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...

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...

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...