Poetry Movies

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

A popular high school girl is harassed by a delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together. Through written words, they...

Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic...

Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at...

Carta a Uma Jovem Escritora is a reflection on memory and forgetting, presented through five striking portraits of five Portuguese women writers:...

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist...

A Thousand Years of Joy charts poet/activist Robert Bly's journey from Midwestern farm boy to global troubadour, bestselling author of Iron John and...

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...

A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed...

Dania is 21 years old and grew up in a Christian community in the Faroe Islands’ Bible belt. She has just moved to Tórshavn and is...

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died,...

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

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

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists,...

Three surreal stories intertwine in a strange anthology of causality, effect and consequence: An actress who will do everything in her power to get...