Poetry Movies

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social...

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was one of the leaders of the marginal poetry...

First film of Juan José Ponce’s trilogy about Federico García Lorca. Lunas de Nueva York looks back on Federico’s trip to...

She is a full-length documentary about writer Aimée Baker and her award-winning poetry collection Doe. Doe is her quest to give voice to the...

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant...

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

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

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer,...

Wingsuit BASE jumping is often presented as a thrill seeking adrenaline rush. Spellbound takes us deeper into the more contemplative aspects of...

A boy recalls his grandmother’s guidance on how to cross the street. Retracing this ritual, his memory, faith, and childhood converge.

This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even...

Accompanying from a place to another the poet who spent years in exile far from his native land of al-Birwa, in Haifa, Cyprus, Tunis, Amman, Paris,...

James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feature The Broken Tower (2011).

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

Two teenage pseudo-intellectual hipsters spend the day driving around their hometown in search of culture and adventure

Amiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and...

Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of...

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