Poetry Movies

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last...

Presents a portrait of Ted Rosenthal, a poet who has been told that he has six months to live. He discusses how he faces death and reads poems that...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...

An experimental anthology about mental turmoil. Nine subversive perspectives from young filmmakers from around the world who lament over depression,...

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of...

"A Brutalist film-poem about the nature of a family tree and the macabre ancestral tales that work their way into your identity, whether you like it...

At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where...

A collection of three poems that explores the ending of a love that was once seen as everything.

Yu-rye Kim, she began studying literature late in her life and debuted as a poet at 67. Now 86, she still carves her life through poetry and...

This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while...

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems...

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

In a sarcastic mood, EZTV's founder John Dorr makes fun of the extensive aspiring Los Angeles spoken word scene of the 1980s and the enormous number...

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...

An elegy about ‘José Ð Almeida’s life and work. Along an intimate metamorphosis, this dreamlike and visually expressive world...

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.