Poetry Movies

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

The memory of the poet Vicente Aleixandre remains silent at No. 3 Velintonia Street. Home of a Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, it also recalls the...

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

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Through dramatization and interviews with her colleagues, this film captures the life and work of famed Puerto Rican poet Mercedes Negrón...

A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604)...

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

A short animation film based on the question "What is your interest?", a question that can be quite confronting for all kinds of people and...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

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

The story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a...

A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed...

Animation inspired by the poem “The Infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi.

"Four boys drinking tomato juice and beer for God knows why..."

Dania is 21 years old and grew up in a Christian community in the Faroe Islands’ Bible belt. She has just moved to Tórshavn and is...

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

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