Poetry Movies

Sir John Betjeman visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among those visited: Sandringham church on the...

Since 1985, poets, songwriters and musicians have gathered at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.

A second experimental short by Evan W. Gerdes told solely via emojis and poetry.

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

Factory Talk is an intergenerational conversation about identity, sexuality and masculinity in a rural factory. Through the clanging of metal they...

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for...

It's Chico, baby. He's the king of love!

After his parents' death in a traffic accident, Ibrahim decides to go to their summer house, where he goes every summer with his family, alone this...

Following a tumultuous breakup, a young college student tries to win back her ex-girlfriend by performing in a confessional-style poetry slam.

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art...

If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!

Documentary about the Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia.

Through a child's lens, The Honest Poet reveals a rarely seen side of Afghanistan, following 11-year-old Raheem on a journey through his country and...