Poetry Movies

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers...

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...

Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century...

Since ancient times, the Green Man has been one of the most mysterious and menacing of mythical characters. He also has a familiar...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period...

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

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

A queer poet navigates heartbreak through writing, techno, and self-destruction.

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of...

Denim' is a poetic short film by writer, poet and performer Siana Bangura, exploring gentrification and social cleansing in South East London....

Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey festival, in their Wilmot (N.H.) hometown and...

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

Being educated and knowing how drink, A-Ni is seen as the town's madwoman. Yulu is entranced by her.

First film of Juan José Ponce’s trilogy about Federico García Lorca. Lunas de Nueva York looks back on Federico’s trip to...

When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that...

In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from...

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.