Poetry Movies

A short film adaptation of the titular poem by Melissa Lozada-Oliva.

A nameless protagonist reconciles with his existential dread as he arrives at a lighthouse, a physical manifestation of all that he searched for.As a...

A boy recalls his grandmother’s guidance on how to cross the street. Retracing this ritual, his memory, faith, and childhood converge.

Movie A mash-up about contemporary oral poetry, that shows and dismantle the machine that builds the current Buenos Aires underground. A fundamental...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

WAR OF WORDS is an energizing, controversial and inspiring feature documentary that lifts the lid on the fast growing UK Battle Rap scene. The...

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

An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet, and her own penchant...

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine. "We made a film on...

A modern poet Jamal who is against the traditional Urdu Poetry reads the biography of Mir Taqi Mir,one of the greatest poets of the 18th century. And...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

A collection of three poems that explores the ending of a love that was once seen as everything.

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died,...

Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her...

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...

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. And probably the most abysmal. In his texts, he deals with the dark side of humanity like...

A dreamlike cinematic poem about a family. A boy runs an errand for his mother and realizes that she is dying. A man attends the funeral of a former...