Poetry Movies

A dreamlike cinematic poem about a family. A boy runs an errand for his mother and realizes that she is dying. A man attends the funeral of a former l...

A conceptual art project exploring poetry in an alternative, modern way. Similar to a collection of short stories this project assembles a series of v...

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

During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hote...

Two teenage pseudo-intellectual hipsters spend the day driving around their hometown in search of culture and adventure

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, wh...

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids fro...

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her o...

A nobleman poet embarks on boat trip with two local fishermen. As they hop the bucolic islands he recalls his youthful tragic love, his artistic impot...

Hum lives in a refugee camp near Hamburg. He loves films and finances his visits to the cinema by selling lost properties from cinema visits in the re...

Poet John Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station, Camden Town and Hatfield, where he recites a handfu...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. And probably the most abysmal. In his texts, he deals with the dark side of humanity like...

About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its people and nature. Childhood, love, painful searches f...

Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the hotel's...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In betw...