Poem Movies

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for...

Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.

The life and literature of Mato Grosso do Sul poet Manoel de Barros. Alternating sequences of interviews with the poet, verses from his poetry, and...

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

In the tradition of experimental genres such as the cut-up, collage, permutation, altered book, & erasure poem, ‘Burning Batteries’...

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

A writer in self-exile is haunted by the memory of his long-lost love. Mysterious events and an unexpected visitor are about to offer him a chance to...

A film by Kayhan Lannes Ozmen, based on the poem "Girl on the escalator" by Charles Bukowski.

The story of a young Saudi poet who receives the prestigious title The Prince of Poets (Amir Al-Shu’ara), and is later nominated to...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

A man loses himself in melancholic euphoria.

Sangria is intended to discuss the women's role in Brazil since colonization until nowadays, once the females have been silenced and battered for...

Approaching the microphone in a small room, a young woman prepares to make the speech of her life. Desperate to find her voice in the wake of an...

Video poem based on The Last Dragon by Radu Stanca.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...

Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally...

Works inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, and Ai Weiwei represent Bukowski's poem's theme of self-invention.

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

An audiovisual poem. Cryptic whispers speak of a mysterious being, known only to forgotten folklore, that has travelled across distant lands to haunt...