Poetry Movies

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...

A vertical film about self-love in the times of liquid love. A film based on a poem by Isadora Tricerri about freedom and the difficulties of being...

Absorbed in his thoughts, an artist is trapped behind his chaotic world.

A short student film about life through the eyes of an assassin stalking his prey, using the poem The Tyger by William Blake.

An independently-produced dramatic feature that depicts Taliban atrocities committed from Kabul to the northern border during the dark era of Taliban...

Two young adults are confronted by compulsory heterosexuality and the gender binary, feeling pressured into conforming. Through self-reflection and...

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...

A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda.

“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was...

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

The narration of a letter which consists of themes such as the passing of time, the unexpectedness of life, the fear of death, and the fear of change.

An elegy about ‘José Ð Almeida’s life and work. Along an intimate metamorphosis, this dreamlike and visually expressive world...

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.

In a desperate conflict with his own thoughts, a man tries to find a way to express his feelings to the girl he likes through his mind.