Poetry Movies

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

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...

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar universe of Tóroddur, and the otherwise not...

A boy-poet from the village enrolls at the elementary school in the nearest city, but the other kids reject him for not being one of theirs. However,...

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers...

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

Submersed in "bro" culture, a fraternity brother's obsession with a poem and its poetess begin to inform him more about himself than he is ready to...

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

A short film written by Hussain Manawer about 2020 and mental health.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

A doctor is tasked by his general manager, who suffers from cancer and is being manipulated. Will the important thing be based on what he won, or is...

When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that...

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the...

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

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

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.

1-channel film installation (21‘20‘‘). 2.00:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound. A wife waits for her dead husband. An...