Poetry Movies

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

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...

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

A young filmmaker struggles with her mental illness as she makes a documentary with the author Fiona Wright, and challenges her to express her...

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

The film is an unusual portrait of Slovak poet Jozef Urban who tragically died. Nevertheless, his short life was enough for his work to influence...

Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher...

Intimate portrait of Marie-Jo Gobron, belgian poet and the director's mother. 20 years after the release of a film about his father's paintings, the...

Documentary film about the great forgotten of Chilean literature. With interviews with family members, poets and artists who knew him, this feature...

An elegy about ‘José Ð Almeida’s life and work. Along an intimate metamorphosis, this dreamlike and visually expressive world...

Nurture, nature, voicemails, photographs.

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

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...

An unlikely encounter between a strange bird who lives in deep water and Lena, a little urban girl.

Poetry, erotic imagery, and Pasolini’s words come together in a fragmented exploration of gay desire and the politics of the body. Navigating...

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

A poetic journey through the life of a woman going through an arranged marriage, animated on traditional Tongan Cloth called Ngatu.

Al Khadra is a renowned Sahrawi war poetess living in the al-Auin camp in the Algerian desert. A vivid testament to 30 years of the Sahara conflict,...

A poetic study of thirst. Stylized images of flowing water and the face of a young woman flowing past as in a metaphysical dream. The magic and...