Poetry Movies

A poem about mania written by Omar Zefier. His second film.

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

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

A series of in-depth conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and...

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

A collage of images and voices of women poets that succeeds brilliantly, both as a tribute to the women whose words are borrowed and as an original...

A poor girl tries to take care of his father during the COVID-19 pandemic by participating in a poetry competition.

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and...

A creation story in epic poem format that traces our origins from the big bang to now, using science, poetry, storytelling, visual art, music, 'oli...

Lockdown, lack of green space, Don Quixote and video games.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The...

A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.

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...

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis,...

Few of us have stopped to consider the lives of the workers who manufacture the objects that make up our daily lives. We use these objects without...

The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential,...