Poetry Movies

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy...

A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids...

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views...

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

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

A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

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...

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for...

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

Second part of the trilogy about the Granada poet directed by Juan José Ponce, which focuses on the writer's journey to Argentina and Uruguay

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

A journey into a mind of an artist with creative crisis.

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

Shalini Saxena lives a wealthy life-style with her brother Rajesh. She attends college and writes a few poems under the name Seema as part time...

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...

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and...

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard Hugo features readings of some of his most famous...