Nowness Popular Movie

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

genus: Fantasy

cast: Miley Cyrus

genus: Crime

cast: Beyoncé

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

genus: Documentary

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What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of society? Filmmakers Jordan Hemingway and Alban...

genus: Documentary

cast: Parma Ham

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,...

genus: Drama

cast: Sasha Frolova

Arab-American filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi embraces the rhythmic rituals that have run alongside Islamic tradition throughout the centuries in this...

genus: Documentary

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A young astrophysicist in a war-torn country watches the stars and black holes, holding a dialogue with her unborn daughter about the nature of light...

genus: Documentary

cast: Olena Kompaniets

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

genus: Drama

cast: Lukita Maxwell

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Nicolas Maxim Endlicher

A frazzled adulteress played by Parisian beauty Zoë Le Ber wakes up in the familiar surroundings of Bar Chateau Marmont, only to find herself...

genus: Drama

cast: Zoé Le Ber

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Ricardo Bofill

Marking the 30th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing, close friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton leads a poetic tribute to the late artist and...

genus: Documentary

cast: Tilda Swinton

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

genus: Documentary

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Haley Rolland

genus: Drama

cast: Ethan Best

A young man eats alone at an LA cevicheria, processing his relationships, grief and questionable behaviours over a phone call.

genus: Drama

cast: Jacob Franco

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

genus: Drama

cast: Du Yusen

A master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths...

genus: Comedy

cast: Georgia Waters

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

genus: Documentary

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Two girls find themselves locked in an Oslo public swimming hall and bond over school gossip, boys and dancing to the psychedelic sounds of...

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cast: Emma Aars