Poet Movies

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s Britain.

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

There live grandmothers, who are also poets, in Goksung. They have lived illiterate because poverty and sex discrimination prevented them from going...

Shot on location in San Antonio, Texas, El Abuelo is an intimate portrait of local educator and poet, Joe Jimenez. Through the meditative process of...

Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action,...

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

Libyan film based on a work by Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih. The film's events revolve around an Arab woman, her status and varying roles, examined through...

Concert in Boris Grebenshchikov's communal apartment (Leningrad, May 1986)

Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn was first Iranian women right activist, Bab-i fighter ,theologian,poet. Tahirih was a woman of letters who lived in the...

Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film.