Poet Movies

Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious...

If This World Were Mine: Poems is an intimate, cinematic short film adaptation of a layered poetic journey—a visual meditation on identity,...

About a gentle young man, a misunderstood poet whose printed poems the ruffians use to wrap sausages. His misfortune is that he falls in love with an...

a young artist tired of his lonely life decides to walk through the city and reunite with someone from his past.

February 1954: ten mass graves with over 500 bodies are found in the region of Sofia, Bulgaria. Experts say they were killed and the deaths occurred...

Short experimental movie about sea, love and trust.

A young poet leaves Seville, a city of balconies full of suitcases and flats for no one, and arrives in Puçol, his grandmother’s town,...

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his...

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life,...

The documentary film "No" (2007) presents the life of our metaphysical poet Dragivoje Sreckovic, his poetry, as well as the poet's vision of the...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...

A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In the desolate countryside, haunted by recurrent dreams, a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead.

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry into the medium of film. ...

The story puts İlhan Çomak at the center, even though he is not physically present in the film. It focuses on the 21 years that...