Literature Movies

Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his...

In the heart of urban sprawl, a slang-speaking gamer's mundane life is turned upside down when he stumbles upon a mysterious book by Pushkin. As he...

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

How the novel that is widely considered the greatest work of modern fiction was created and the toll it took on James Joyce's family.

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard publishing movement that has emerged from...

Stefan Zweig was the most read author of the German language in the 1930s. He believed in a united, peaceful Europe and travelled most parts of the...

Poet and author Xi Xi is one of Hong Kong's most treasured writers. Though also acclaimed in Taiwan and mainland China for seminal works like the...

An account of the life of the French poet Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95), author of more than one hundred fables and a model for many other European...

Documentary about the Dutch author, illustrator and performer Joke van Leeuwen, who has won various awards for her literature for children which...

A surreal, moody short about the fetishisation of automobiles and auto accidents.

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named...

Pai Hsien-yung has lent Chinese-language literature some of its most colorful and most memorable characters, and served as the inspiration of...

"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused...

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a...

James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber and based upon the short story by Sid Chaplin. Narrated by north east broadcaster Mike Neville the film...

Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema and the world of the visual arts, which have...

A documentary about writer and novelist Liu Yichang.