Poetry Movies

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov.

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.

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

"The Inner Demon" consists of a red-saturated pallet that subconsciously produces a danger response in the viewer's mind. This along with the...

Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the...

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. ...

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

Poetry, erotic imagery, and Pasolini’s words come together in a fragmented exploration of gay desire and the politics of the body. Navigating...

Short experimental movie about sea, love and trust.

A poetess retreats into a mysterious forest seeking inspiration, only to enter a dreamlike realm where four enigmatic muses guide her through...

A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet,...

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

Reading out loud one poem of Andrés Eloy Blanco, titled “Pleito de amar y querer” (Battle between loving and caring).

The attempt to await something. A visual representation of internal movements.

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

Set to the poignant words of Shelby Newland and inspired by her poem of the same name-- a poem which won the National Poetry Out Loud competition's...