Poetry Movies

Lesley, in her 80s, and teenager Jay deliver spoken word poetry expressing their sense of belonging, home, and their vision for the future of the...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

A little boy troubled by a paper bird - Quote : "I am alone in my gondola, I am trapped in the sky, My name's Nathan, I don't like the real"

The spiritual successor to 'The Paul Molinar Show,' 'Poetry with Paul Molinar' offers bittersweet commentaries on the state of contemporary American...

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

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

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the...

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a...

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.

Two young adults are confronted by compulsory heterosexuality and the gender binary, feeling pressured into conforming. Through self-reflection and...

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century...

A short student film about life through the eyes of an assassin stalking his prey, using the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

After nearly three years living in Japan, Fergus Gregg finds himself struggling to bid farewell to this beautiful country. On a journey tracing the...

Since 1985, poets, songwriters and musicians have gathered at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.

A young man grows up with the sound of wind through the forest and sunlight that never rushes. But today, he must step into a city that waits for no...

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.