Poetry Movies

Following a tumultuous breakup, a young college student tries to win back her ex-girlfriend by performing in a confessional-style poetry slam.

A man of words is forced to become a man of action as John discovers the secret bucket list of his ill son Robin. The two abscond from the hospital to...

Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.),this film documents just how influential drug experien...

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a s...

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotio...

Death follows a poet for his whole life, being a parasite to the poet.

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

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...

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

'La Mamma Morta’ is an aria from the opera Andrea Chenier that is also well-known for its use in a memorable sequence in the Oscar award-winning Phila...

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

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 t...

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

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of poetr...

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small m...

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...