Poet Movies

An intimate documentary about the life and times of Swiss poet and folk singer Mani Matter (1936-1972), seen from his friends' perspective.

A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the...

There live grandmothers, who are also poets, in Goksung. They have lived illiterate because poverty and sex discrimination prevented them from going...

Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film.

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young...

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that...

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.

A doctor is tasked by his general manager, who suffers from cancer and is being manipulated. Will the important thing be based on what he won, or is...

Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.

a young artist tired of his lonely life decides to walk through the city and reunite with someone from his past.

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

Five friends go out for the best night of their lives and their last together. To hunt for love, cheap drinks and salvation.

Shot on location in San Antonio, Texas, El Abuelo is an intimate portrait of local educator and poet, Joe Jimenez. Through the meditative process of...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Refuse to compromise to choose freedom

Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the great novels of world literature. The documentary immerses itself in the very own cosmos,...

Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.

February 1954: ten mass graves with over 500 bodies are found in the region of Sofia, Bulgaria. Experts say they were killed and the deaths occurred...

Documentary about the life and work of Flemish poet Karel Jonckheere looked at from four perspectives/professions: farmer, fisherman, sheepherder and...