Poetry Movies

A series of poems.

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was one of the leaders of the marginal poetry...

Enraged, a teacher murders a young pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.

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...

A man wrestles with the nature of life after death and the purpose of his soul over the shadowy presence of his lost love, Lenore.

During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a...

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.

Second part of the trilogy about the Granada poet directed by Juan José Ponce, which focuses on the writer's journey to Argentina and Uruguay

Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his...

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

Lost in the foreign city of Budapest, a solitary Chinese man finds his place in the world not through words, but through a single, unexpected moment...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

Amiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and...

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose...

A New York teacher indulges a mad high school poet who sees himself as a mythic hero.