Poetry Movies

Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.

Conversations with four people — an artist, a woman struggling with her identity as a high achiever, an actor, and a priest — exploring...

Inspired by the untold personal story of the 19th-century Chinese poet and revolutionary Qiu Jin, Wu Tsang brings to life, subverts, and re-enacts...

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

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.

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat...

In a desperate conflict with his own thoughts, a man tries to find a way to express his feelings to the girl he likes through his mind.

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we...

How have one poet and his single book of poetry from the last century continued to inspire people today? A Life That Sings follows the legendary poet...

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

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of...

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.