Poetry Movies

Conversations with four people — an artist, a woman struggling with her identity as a high achiever, an actor, and a priest — exploring their inner wo...

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using p...

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

In the film, the outstanding contemporary avant-garde poet Vladimir Ignatiev, the heir of OBERIUT, appeared. He played himself and read his own poetry...

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet o...

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s rule.

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and winding dirt road w...

La orilla que se Abisma is conceived as a journey, a trip along a river. Like rivers, like all journeys, the film has meanders, small riverbeds, detou...

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

A kinetic typography animation set to a reading of the poem "The Wings" by Sebastian Fox.

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine. "We made a film on the return of the ashes of Em...

#poetry explores how poets have used Instagram to share their poetry with their readers, the backlash against online creators, how the platform has al...

In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we k...

Follow blind poet Paiv as he navigates a sighted world, finding solace through his art.

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.

T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The Waste Land...

Third film of Juan José Ponce's trilogy about Federico García Lorca.

A short film adaptation of the titular poem by Melissa Lozada-Oliva.