Poetry Movies

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

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s...

Martin, a nu-jazz trumpet player with a unique style, is fighting against convention and mediocrity. He will not accept any compromise, neither in...

A Swedish woman prowls through her childhood memories after a Chinese plane crash.

Poet John Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station, Camden Town and Hatfield, where he recites a...

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

A Thousand Years of Joy charts poet/activist Robert Bly's journey from Midwestern farm boy to global troubadour, bestselling author of Iron John and...

Daniela wanders around Santiago in search of "The City of the Caesars", a Chilean film that has disappeared. She meets Bárbara and Manuel, who...

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest...

Alone, driven by hope, a blind painter wanders through the shards and shivers of the past in search of hopeless certainty.