Poetry Movies

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected...

Jip and Mijntje meet at a party organised by their mutual friend Lino. The sparks fly immediately and they grow closer as the months pass. Suddenly...

When Tess Kelley realizes her daughter Jenny Kelley still isn't over her divorce from musician Rick Meadows, the irresponsible, ever-absent father of...

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

This story revolves around a famous poet who meets a woman who is in trouble. In order to treat her, he takes her to Shimla in a big hospital, but...

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

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he...

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

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

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

Carta a Uma Jovem Escritora is a reflection on memory and forgetting, presented through five striking portraits of five Portuguese women writers:...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele...

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

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being...

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the...