Poetry Movies

An ethereal trip to Lana Del Rey's conception of Adam and Eve story. In the beginning as sinners, they the fall from heaven, away from Marilyn and...

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

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...

A documentary about the life and work of poet and visual artist Moacy Cirne.

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

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

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and...

Solentime (2020), directed by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Camilo Henríquez, revisits the memory of poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal and...

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war...

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from...

A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604)...

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

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

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

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a...