Poetry Movies

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

Inspired by the life and poetry of Sargon Boulos, this film explores exile, memory, and the enduring connection between a person and their homeland.

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.

In the period 1891-1927, Henriette Roland Holst goes through a dramatic development. As an aspiring poet from an affluent bourgeois milieu she throws...

A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

Avant que le jour ne passe is a visual poem about what it means to exist. A collection of fleeting moments. Lives crossing. The world breathing. ...

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

Wahdat-ul-Wujood explores the concept of oneness and the human journey through separation, conflict, and return. Inspired by the philosophy of Wahdat...

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An uninspired artist goes on a journey and returns with an image.

Filmmaker Tegan Pearce combines autobiographical spoken word and expressive visual direction to present a cinematic interpretation of autism.

When Dominik forges a friendship with a classmate who suffers from a unique speech impediment, his whole world turns upside down. Now, during summer...

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

A short poetic narrative about dealing with separation. Told in French and presented to English audiences without subtitles to leave the characters'...

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.