Explore Spotlight

Explore Spotlight

New to New Mountain+? These are the films our editors chose to welcome you. Each one reflects something different about what you'll find here — powerful stories, told with care, chosen because they matter.

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  • Tanna

    On the remote volcanic island of Tanna in Vanuatu, one of the last traditional tribes in the world still lives by the old ways. When Wawa, a young woman of the Yakel tribe, falls in love with Dain, her chief's grandson, their love is forbidden — and when war with a rival tribe escalates, Wawa is ...

  • Something Better Change

    Throughout the 1980s, outfits like Black Flag, D.O.A., Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat and the Circle Jerks helped define the decade's deafening hardcore punk sound, paving the way for the eventual explosion of punk bands through radio and MTV in the decades to come. While punk rock's upper echelon m...

  • The Etruscan Smile

    Rory MacNeil has spent his whole life being proud, stubborn, and emotionally unavailable. Then he has to move in with his estranged son in San Francisco for medical treatment, and everything he built his identity around starts to crack. In the best possible way. Brian Cox (Succession, Braveheart)...

  • The Falling Sky

    The Yanomami people of the Amazon have known the forest as home for thousands of years. Now they're watching it disappear. The Falling Sky is an urgent documentary about the sacred relationship between Indigenous peoples and nature, alongside the devastating, ongoing assault of deforestation on b...

  • Who By Fire

    Jeff's been invited to the deep-woods estate of a famous filmmaker by his friend Max, and Max's older sister, with whom Jeff is secretly in love, is also going to be there. What could possibly go wrong? Who By Fire is a slow-burning, beautifully shot coming-of-age drama about the charged emotiona...

  • What We Don't Say

    Ben draws comics and dreams of finding someone real. Juliette is a free spirit who doesn't do serious. When they meet, something sparks, but the things they're most afraid to say are exactly what could bring them together or tear it all apart. What We Don't Say is a warm, sharp fusion of drama an...

  • Hope Village

    Lucy Hall is The Hope Dealer. As a young girl, she watched her family disappear into the worlds of alcohol and drugs, and then she too was caught in the web of generational addiction. But Lucy found her way to recovery. Her story of self-empowerment is now at the center of saving others. She's he...