Poetry Movies

The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's work we open a dialog between the East and West,...

Intimate portrait of poet, playwright, painter and filmmaker Derek Walcott, set in his beloved native island, St Lucia.

Rumination at the fairground by night has our narrator contemplating desire, human nature, sexual freedom, dreams, past romances and self-discovery....

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed...

The film is simply the internal, subliminal (poetic) thoughts of an aging woman poet as she travels the world, alone, probably for the last time,...

A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (derived from Old English Tiwesdæg, meaning...

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

A boy feels that his only way of living is through the art of painting.

Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic...

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded...

Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the present to the past runs through a polylogue of...

Daniela wanders around Santiago in search of "The City of the Caesars", a Chilean film that has disappeared. She meets Bárbara and Manuel, who...

A short film adaptation of the titular poem by Melissa Lozada-Oliva.

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has...

"Four boys drinking tomato juice and beer for God knows why..."

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and...

1-channel film installation (21‘20‘‘). 2.00:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound. A wife waits for her dead husband. An...