Poetry Movies

A poor girl tries to take care of his father during the COVID-19 pandemic by participating in a poetry competition.

This documentary shows the life and work of the Galician poet from O Courel, Uxío Novoneyra, from a double perspective: the intimate and...

Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the present to the past runs through a polylogue of...

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems...

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was...

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...

Sir John Betjeman visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among those visited: Sandringham church on the...

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a...

To Hold My Love is a short film merging dance, fashion, and spoken words. Through their bodies and their language, the five dancers pull the viewers...

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments...

The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

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

The spiritual successor to 'The Paul Molinar Show,' 'Poetry with Paul Molinar' offers bittersweet commentaries on the state of contemporary American...

Is it possible to travel twice to the same memory? The filmmaker built a cabin on an isolated riverbank, just opposite his childhood island, which...