Poem Movies

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Pooja Mathew, a spirited young girl, wants to have a love marriage in her life. Thus, she stops at nothing to impress Giri, who saved her once from a...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

A conceptual art project exploring poetry in an alternative, modern way. Similar to a collection of short stories this project assembles a series of...

From the music of Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio, English filmmaker Terence Davies does a cinematic reading of his own poem about his late...

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

A series of poems.

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of...

A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables...

1819. A shipwreck-survivor, the Navigator, encounters an Old Knight who recounts his tale: Long ago, the Knight fell in love with a mysterious...

A haiku about a window and a woman.

The life and literature of Mato Grosso do Sul poet Manoel de Barros. Alternating sequences of interviews with the poet, verses from his poetry, and...

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the...

The portrait of two young women – a loving team that complements each other with all their habits and rituals like two puzzle pieces. This is a...

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

A writer in self-exile is haunted by the memory of his long-lost love. Mysterious events and an unexpected visitor are about to offer him a chance to...