Poetry Movies

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

Daniela wanders around Santiago in search of "The City of the Caesars", a Chilean film that has disappeared. She meets Bárbara and Manuel, who...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

A man of words is forced to become a man of action as John discovers the secret bucket list of his ill son Robin. The two abscond from the hospital...

Soura stumbles upon a bluebell field and is left in a haunting trance, plagued by disturbing visions. She returns to the field, desperate for a...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

Is it possible to travel twice to the same memory? The filmmaker built a cabin on an isolated riverbank, just opposite his childhood island, which...

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

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

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.

"Before I left today, I almost forgot to answer a lot of e-mails."

The director's father, Professor Horst E.M. Schüppel - a 23 year old teacher in the Soviet occupied zone of East Germany - was a founding member...

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...

Frankie and Lucky, two young artists navigating love and identity in New York City, cross paths again after years of separation. Their reunion in a...

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and...

Depicting the intimacies of life, love, and longing, the director’s own father recites Pablo Neruda’s “Me Gustas Cuando...

"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...

A nameless protagonist reconciles with his existential dread as he arrives at a lighthouse, a physical manifestation of all that he searched for.As a...