Poetry Movies

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language...

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of...

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman....

Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's...

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,...

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...

This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the...

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of...

A short film inspired by the poetry of Billy Collins.

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

How have one poet and his single book of poetry from the last century continued to inspire people today? A Life That Sings follows the legendary poet...

The Grove is the second part of Lawrence Jordan's H.D. Trilogy. It continues what began with THE BLACK OUD (again featuring Joanna McClure as the...

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little...

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...

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...

Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey to New York City to share their story of hope,...