Poetry Movies

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.

The brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a...

A 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader Mark E Smith. The Film follows the current band recording...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.

A poor girl tries to take care of his father during the COVID-19 pandemic by participating in a poetry competition.

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.

Made for Italian national television, Ellis Donda’s Il Corpo Rubato (The Stolen Body) is an experimental documentary on psychoanalisis in...

Self-absorbed artist Jenny voices her grievances with the world and the people around her as she enters a series of poetry competitions.

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando...

Al Khadra is a renowned Sahrawi war poetess living in the al-Auin camp in the Algerian desert. A vivid testament to 30 years of the Sahara conflict,...

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.

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.

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

James Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small...

Two young adults are confronted by compulsory heterosexuality and the gender binary, feeling pressured into conforming. Through self-reflection and...