Leonardo Bastião, The Illiterate Poet

In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised met

The Dead Poet: Seven Tales of Miklos Radnoti

The life of Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, who died in the Holocaust. Seven individual stories show milestones in the poet’s life, with characters taken either from his works or from his personal history.

I want to be a poet

The award-winning writer Claribel Alegría tells the story of her life, her influence in a new generation of poets and prizes like Premio Reina Sofía for Iberoamerican Poetry in 2017.

The Poet’s Wine

Drunken poet declaims a surreal poem.

This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

The last day of Patrizia Cavalli’s home. Before it’s all gone.

The Poet's Dream

A poet has run out of ideas for his film script, much to the chagrin of himself and the film factory's director, Mr Meter. In a dream, the poet delivers the perfect script. (Stumfilm.dk)

The American Poet's Visit

Based on a story by Frank Moorhouse, this is a satire on left intellectual manners in Sydney at the time. Moorhouse's story was in turn based on an actual event, a party thrown by members of the Sydney Push for visiting

For the Poet Nikos Kavvadias

Stavros Tornes directs this documentary centered on the poet Nikos Kavvadias and his poetry.

Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. In this film, the first to ever be made

Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet

Features 43 of Hartley's paintings and drawings as well as many photographs from his early youth to his final years. Drawing heavily from Hartley's little-known poetical works, this documentary, a deeply personal stateme

Edgar Estigarribia, The Poet of Guarán

Against a colorful and psychedelic rural scenario in Argentine Mesopotamia, this film depicts the life and works of poet and reciter Edgar Estigarribia (1923-1989). A compulsive, self-taught creator, the "Poet of Guaran"

Poet of Things, Painter of Memories

A documentary film about the painter Louisa Matthíasdóttir. In amongst the turmoil and agitation of downtown Manhattan, Lousia Matthíasdóttir focuses on the calm and serene Icelandic countryside.

Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is well known as one of Canada's prominent early literary figures. He is less famous as a federal civil servant who rose to become a powerful head of the Indian Department, and who, from

Poet on a Business Trip

In 2002, Ju Anqi made a film about a tour by the poet Shu through Xinjiang, the most western-lying, autonomous Uyghur province of China. All that we know about Shu is that he plays a poet who sends himself on a business

A Poet of the River

An 18-year-old North Korean defector, Lee Sun-hwa, crosses the Duman River, traversing the thin boundary between life and death, and arrives in South Korea. Upon completing her resettlement program at Hanawon, she is pla

From me, Your little poet

A poet who brought his wife back to life through poetry.

Robert Burns: The People's Poet

Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favourite poets, as Scotland celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons. He travels through the landscape of modern S

The Poet and the Fallen Soul

The Poet Who Loved the War: Ivor Gurney

The remarkable story of the First World War soldier-poet who broke all the rules. Ivor Gurney wasn't an officer but a private who bizarrely joined up in the hope that the ordered army life would help ease a mental health

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resists the five acts." He describes how diff