Poetry Movies

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...

A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet, Anna...

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like g...

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

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

In a desperate conflict with his own thoughts, a man tries to find a way to express his feelings to the girl he likes through his mind.

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.

A poor girl tries to take care of his father during the COVID-19 pandemic by participating in a poetry competition.

Inspired by the Poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" follows the accounts of a dying man (Morgan Holgate) who encountered a mysterious woman...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time, this exp...

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has ha...

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest representati...

Love Boom Bap is a genre-defying short film. It features no dialogue and takes the audience on a journey of self-discovery through the music and poet...