Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

Chicken Poets

Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yu

Poets Against the Bomb

An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.

Poetica for the Living

A traveler wanders an apocalyptic Earth, collecting the last words of the people they meet on their journey. But they must come to terms with their own grief as the world ends around them.

City of Poets

In a small, semi-utopian city, all the streets are named after poets. When war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accommodate the refugees. Now, the streets are named after soldiers.

Bad Poetry Tokyo

A 30 Year old woman, a hostess past her time working at a shady club and an aspiring actress living in Tokyo. Betrayed by her lover and her dreams crushed, the broken woman leaves Tokyo for her hometown in the countrysid

Cynara: Poetry in Motion

1883, Baycliff, an isolated English village on the Irish Sea. Two women's friendship becomes passion. Cynara, a sculptor, alone, befriends Byron, a visitor who's left Paris in unhappiness. They ride horses, talk, play ch

On Poetry

An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli.

A Declaration of Poetic Disobedience from the New Border

To the Masterminds of Paranoid Nationalism I say, we say: "We," the Other people We, the migrants, exiles, nomads & wetbacks In permanent process of voluntary deportation We, the transient orphans of dying nation-st

Poetry Written on the Banana Leaf

China's first song and dance film was "Poetry Written on the Banana Leaf" directed by Sun Yu and starring Wang Renmei in 1932. A battalion commander's lover, named Zhao Zhao, wrote a poem on a banana leaf in memory of t

Godard, Love and Poetry

Documentary about director Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. In 1960, Jean-Luc Godard films for the first time Anna Karina and falls in love. His cinema is transformed by it forever. Spanned from "Little Soldier" to "Craz

Cinema Poetry

Four collections of short films based on poems by poets of the Silver Age.

Modern Poetry Exhibition/1966

Artists contributing to the 1966 Modern Poetry Exhibition included HUANG Hua-cheng, LONG Sih-liang, HUANG Yong-song, and CHANG Chao-tang; each artist chose their favorite modern poems and transformed them into imagery. T

Act1: Melancholic/Poetic/Anticipation/Expectancy

two eyes/Act 1: smile

Vida poeta: Homero Expósito

Documentary about the life of Homero Expósito, enormous tango poet, author of "Naranjo en flor", among many other essential songs of citizen music.

We Belong Here: Poetry and spoken word documentary

Eight of the UK’s best poets and spoken word artists read out one of their works on ‘state of the nation’ themes. The artists discuss their work, the work of others, and how important poetry and spoken word is at uncerta

Great Poetry

“Great Poetry” is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They’re young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people.

Majakovskij: Sono poeta e per questo sono interessante

castelporziano ostia dei poeti

The film recounts the "First International Festival of Poets" held on the beach at Castelporziano in 1979, intertwining the event with symbolic and disturbing events in Italy in the late 1970s, such as the proximity to t

Endless Poetry

A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic ci