Poetry in the Wine of Your Lips

At night, in an ancient garden in Al-Andalus, Ibn Ammar and al-Hakam have a secret passionate encounter. Adaptation of the Hispano-Arabic poetry of the poet Ibn Khafaja.

USA: Poetry: Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders

This episode focuses on Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders. Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frank O'Hara belongs, with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, to the "New York Poets"

Do You Fit In With The West?: A Poetry

A young man explores the culture of western individuality, conformity, while embarking on a search for authenticity.

poetry with the taste of ice cream

A filmmaker asks, wryly and critically: what is poetry, and what role does it play in culture and politics?

Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry

This documentary offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as Immigration, Language, Family, Memory, and Spirituality, it is a sophisticated mergi

Dutch Poetry Film Festival On Tour 2025

A compilation film of the best short films from the 2025 Netherlands Poetry Film Festivals.

The Poetry Deal: A Film with Diane di Prima

The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima is an impressionistic documentary and a story about poetry, rebellion, and artistic integrity. Poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher, mother, and revolutionary activist Diane

The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

Naive School: Peach Blossom Poetry Society of Dream of Red Mansions

Black Honey, the Life and and Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

As long as Abraham Sutskever lived, he wouldn't let a film about his life be made. Today, eight years after his passing, Black Honey tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. Sutskever led

Why Is Preparing Fish A Political Act? Poetry Of Janice Mirikitani

San Francisco Bay Area poet, Janice Mirikitani, gives personal reflections on her experiences as a Japanese American woman. Interspersed with readings of her own poetry, the documentary paints an image of an Asian Americ

How Could I Not Be Among You: The Poetry of Ted Rosenthal

Presents a portrait of Ted Rosenthal, a poet who has been told that he has six months to live. He discusses how he faces death and reads poems that he wrote during this period

Tamano Visual Poetry Collection: Nagisa‘s Bicycle

Three short stories, all about bicycles and/or bicycle racing. Specifically, keirin track bicycle racing. An aging cyclist is too young to quit racing, but too old to keep up. A friendship between two old friends would f

In the face of God's silence, poetry

In Mexico City, poetry emerges at night as an act of resistance against urban chaos. Among the shadows and the pulse of protest, a chorus of poets raise it's voice, revealing their drive for life and death."

Kiyumi's Poetry and Sayuru's Embroidery

After school, Kiyumi and Sayuru ride their bicycles to their meeting place, take off their bicycle seats with a wrench, and go off to play with their seats held in both arms so that it will not get stolen. One day when t

Ambulatory Through the Poetry of Augusto dos Anjos and António Nobre

A decadent and symbolist Portuguese poet, António Nobre died of tuberculosis at the age of 32 (1900), having published only one book (Só, 1892). A symbolist Brazilian poet, Augusto dos Anjos died of pneumonia at the age

Annette Insdorf on DEKALOG Krzysztof Kieślowski's Masterful Poetry

Produced by Criterion in 2016, film professor Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski, examines the formal and thematic patterns of Dekalog.

The Bible as Literature: Part 2 - History, Poetry, and Drama in the Old Testament

The bible from the viewpoint of literature, including a small dramatization of the account of Job.

A Mere Grain of Nothing My Death: A Life in Poetry - Ingrid Jonker

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled collections of poems. Jonker'

Meth + Murder in P-town, Isn't That What Poetry Is About?

Perhaps the way to deal with the adversary is confront him in ourselves. We have to fight for little bit of health. We have to make our living and dieing important again. and the living and dieing of others. Isn't that w