Poetry Movies

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the...

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached...

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed...

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

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer,...

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being...

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for...

One gray and routine day, a lonely young man is visited by an extraordinary being.

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected...

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he...

It's been years since Stef last left her house. The loss of her brother combined with the quiet dread of the unknown conspiring to keep her inside....

A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.