Poetry Movies

A short animation film based on the question "What is your interest?", a question that can be quite confronting for all kinds of people and...

Soura stumbles upon a bluebell field and is left in a haunting trance, plagued by disturbing visions. She returns to the field, desperate for a...

Ouroboros delicately captures Highgate Cemetery’s gothic architecture, ivy-draped tombs, and nature-reclaimed landscapes, drawing on staff...

A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604)...

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

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

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

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

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

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

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

A Thousand Years of Joy charts poet/activist Robert Bly's journey from Midwestern farm boy to global troubadour, bestselling author of Iron John and...

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Amidst the captivating world of poetry, Melanie and Kyle's love flourishes. They explore the depth of their emotions through verses that intertwine...

A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.

Lost in the foreign city of Budapest, a solitary Chinese man finds his place in the world not through words, but through a single, unexpected moment...