Poetry Movies

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

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...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

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

A woman's walk through time and search for true freedom. The inner look breaks with the punishment of immobility, and the woman's destiny becomes a...

Only a handful of Yiddish poets remain alive. Chava Alberstein sets out to interview those last writers of Yiddish poetry, to hear their poems and...

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

Ponders the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of our life.

A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of...

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning...

This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.

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

On the winter solstice, four friends reunite at their family's beachside cabin after years apart. From the ocean, a mysterious stranger arrives...

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

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

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

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

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