Poetry Movies

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

Ouroboros delicately captures Highgate Cemetery’s gothic architecture, ivy-draped tombs, and nature-reclaimed landscapes, drawing on staff...

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...

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending...

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

Celebrated as one of the masters of the short story, Frank O'Connor was also an important translator of classical Irish poetry. Cork poet and writer...

Jip and Mijntje meet at a party organised by their mutual friend Lino. The sparks fly immediately and they grow closer as the months pass. Suddenly...

Two trans-folx friends, together with their dog and plants, grieve for and with each other during a 14-day quarantine period.

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

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism...

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

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

The new era of a “Clown” that makes out of anything, comedy. With his absurd visual gags, he takes you out of your comfort zone, and has...

Heartbroken, Matthew, an American art curator, wanders daydreaming through a maze of artworks in his hotel in Tokyo. That is, until he has a surreal...

A person reflects on their thoughts and life during the night, until a single connection reveals who we truly are through our interactions.

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...

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

A series of poems.