Poetry Movies

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views...

The memory of the poet Vicente Aleixandre remains silent at No. 3 Velintonia Street. Home of a Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, it also recalls the...

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids...

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for...

Carta a Uma Jovem Escritora is a reflection on memory and forgetting, presented through five striking portraits of five Portuguese women writers:...

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and...

For Michael Shiver, life as an easy-going cab driver in New York suddenly changes when he picks up supermodel Sarah Easton and falls head over heels...

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he...

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text...

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected...

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and...

Two friends visit their recently laid-off pal after losing contact, only to find him acting odd and making some questionable choices.

A journey into a mind of an artist with creative crisis.

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew...

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.