Films produced by Nowness

An original and danced adaptation of the Shakespeare classic.

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,...

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

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

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

In the first of a new series of Define Beauty, Berlin-based directer Matt Lambert—known for his often-NSFW work exploring sex and...

Artist and filmmaker Quentin Jones joins forces with Miley Cyrus in a kinky collaboration, stripping away the pop phenomenon's cartoonish persona in...

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....

Two Asian-American teenagers meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families.

After failing to find her place in the city, Jialing returns to her borderland hometown and takes up work again in a rundown nightclub. As she tries...

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...

Over a monsoon-soaked day in a crumbling Mumbai building, a young masseuse moves quietly from body to body. Her caring touch soothes the pain of an...

“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...

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

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

There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house: a brutalist former cement factory of epic proportions on the outskirts of...

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...

In this five-minute film, professional bull rider Ezekiel “Blue” Mitchell introduces the audience to his world of bucking bulls and...

An original and danced adaptation of the Shakespeare classic.

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,...

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