Poetry Movies

Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the...

Photos are no longer enough to nourish the memory of happy days... Poems are powerless to preserve lost love... To return to the place of ecstasy is...

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in...

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art...

With £2.50 in their bank accounts, two friends Saoirse and Emma vow to have the greatest night of their lives at a punk poetry party. They...

La orilla que se Abisma is conceived as a journey, a trip along a river. Like rivers, like all journeys, the film has meanders, small riverbeds,...

In the course of a real estate search a poem is produced. Images play around this drift between properties.

An experimental short told solely via emojis and poetry.

Rumination at the fairground by night has our narrator contemplating desire, human nature, sexual freedom, dreams, past romances and self-discovery....

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

A sensitive “gym bro” chases validation to mask deep insecurities, until a genuine fitness guru forces him to confront the identity...

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

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

Submersed in "bro" culture, a fraternity brother's obsession with a poem and its poetess begin to inform him more about himself than he is ready to...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

A lone wind ensemble musician photographs an ongoing performance as she's suddenly joined by a past lover.