Poetry Movies

Two friends, two Viennese, two poets, two unusual women. They have known each other for 30 years. Elfriede Jelinek is the better known of the two,...

Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an...

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded...

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...

Award winning documentary by Joslyn Rose Lyons exploring the relationship between spiritual connection and the creative process in hip-hop music.

Hum lives in a refugee camp near Hamburg. He loves films and finances his visits to the cinema by selling lost properties from cinema visits in the...

Poetry on 8 Tape features eight vignettes of 8 Tape film narrated with poetry that traverses the landscapes of grief, evolution, self-acceptance,...

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

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

The story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a...

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

A grieving young man searches his dreams for a few more sweet memories with his fiancé

Two friends visit their recently laid-off pal after losing contact, only to find him acting odd and making some questionable choices.

This film documents the 1990 World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout between Ann Waldman and Victor Hernandez Cruz.

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

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.

The film follows Manuel Maria du Bocage, 18th-century poet, as he travels through the world from orgy to orgy and from excess to excess.