Poetry Movies

A young filmmaker struggles with her mental illness as she makes a documentary with the author Fiona Wright, and challenges her to express her...

To Hold My Love is a short film merging dance, fashion, and spoken words. Through their bodies and their language, the five dancers pull the viewers...

Various clips of jellyfish accompanied by the narration of two poems concerning a deity's lover.

A short poetic narrative about dealing with separation. Told in French and presented to English audiences without subtitles to leave the characters'...

A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.

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...

Eight female storytellers, authors and poets performing at the Atalukan Storytelling and Legends Festival in Mashtueiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), Quebec.

A young dromedary attends its first conference. Its happiness is going to turn into deep disappointment.

Folly of Fortuna: a black and white poetry piece in short film form.

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

In a bland and lonesome reality of everyday life, Lomo discovers a portal to an alternate universe. Trying to find her way back home, she stumbles...

A man visits a woman, speaks, smokes, eats fruit and walks out again. Clothes appear on hangers before they one by one disappear. There is a sense of...

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending...

'La Mamma Morta’ is an aria from the opera Andrea Chenier that is also well-known for its use in a memorable sequence in the Oscar...

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

A short for all those who worship life and have a poetic soul

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...

Through video, photography, poetry, and music, the film creates an associative narrative structure that seeks to explore rural American landscapes,...