Poetry Movies

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

The X-rated cartoon animations of Emmy award winning director/animator Merrill Aldighieri add a comical edge to this intense documentary with Lydia...

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and...

TV documentary film about the life of New Zealand poet James K. Baxter.

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy...

Meg is a gifted but emotionally scarred 18-year-old who finds solace in writing poetry. Mr. Auster, her English teacher, recognizes her talent and...

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was one of the leaders of the marginal poetry...

Celebrated as one of the masters of the short story, Frank O'Connor was also an important translator of classical Irish poetry. Cork poet and writer...

"Four boys drinking tomato juice and beer for God knows why..."

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele...

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

He stood, in pain, near the rope, in tears, while his creator hung.

A giant woman wakes up on a pastel-coloured island where small yellow creatures harvest carrots. She seems too big for this world. Every step of her...

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

After a popular girl loses a poetry contest to an outcast, they develop an unexpected interest in each other – but is their young love meant to...

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

Alone, driven by hope, a blind painter wanders through the shards and shivers of the past in search of hopeless certainty.