Poetry Movies

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

In between growing frustrations toward cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists and reflections on a traumatizing memory, a voice rises from...

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of the city of São Paulo. Between Vogue and poetry,...

A girl reads and discusses about 20 poems.

It's been years since Stef last left her house. The loss of her brother combined with the quiet dread of the unknown conspiring to keep her inside....

In a lost corner of the world, just another village isolated from all the recurring rumors of any era. The trees take over leaving the loneliness...

An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last...

Soura stumbles upon a bluebell field and is left in a haunting trance, plagued by disturbing visions. She returns to the field, desperate for a...

A short animation film based on the question "What is your interest?", a question that can be quite confronting for all kinds of people and...

Third film of Juan José Ponce's trilogy about Federico García Lorca.

What happens when non-violent leaders are pushed to support armed struggle against a brutal regime in a forgotten war? Thabyay: Creative Resistance...

In this surrealist vignette-based film, a goldfish makes conversation with various objects. A TV becomes a writer, a triangle learns it is not a...

Solentime (2020), directed by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi and Camilo Henríquez, revisits the memory of poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal and...

Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender...

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers...

An indictment ballad of all the different political groups in America.

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he...

A bucolic fantasy frolic in which an adaptable young woman must navigate a bewildering and whimsical phantasmagoria, populated by anthropomorphic and...

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...