Poetry Movies

Few of us have stopped to consider the lives of the workers who manufacture the objects that make up our daily lives. We use these objects without...

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

Kang Sai, a reserved and talented artist, has long seen his cheerful friend Xiao Xi as his muse. After college, he journeys to the serene Arxan...

Language of Mules is a poignant exploration of the haunting legacy of the Holocaust through the eyes and words of poet and author John Guzlowski....

This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while...

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...

A series of in-depth conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

Documentary about the Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia.

This short film offers a picturesque tour through the maple-wooded hills alongside Québec's Lièvre River in autumn to the accompaniment...

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

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

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle...

A rainy bus ride becomes a poetic reflection on memory, love, and the small details of urban life. Through imagined cinema, conversations, and...

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...