Poet Movies

Humorous, melancholy documentary about copywriter, photo model and poet Frans Vogel (1935-2016). A handsome kid who became involved in the art world...

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

A look at the theme of love in the life of the poet WH Auden, who wrote such famous poems as "Stop All the Clocks" (made famous in "Four Weddings and...

Observing as the World Burns: Poems is an evocative, introspective short film that transforms lines of verse into raw visual poetry—confronting...

Refuse to compromise to choose freedom

In a small rural village in Jeollanam-do, senior ladies learn to read and write from Mrs. Kim at a 'Sall Library at the Road,' a community library...

Pra-Milan (73) is a poet, philosopher, and two-time presidential candidate from the 1990s. After winning a lawsuit against the state for the...

The story is inspired by the comedy of the most famous Yugoslav playwriter Branislav Nušić. Žarko, a young poet is being chased by...

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.

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...

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

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

A film that explores the metaphor of human emotions through meteorological phenomena. The story follows a Queen whose feelings influence the weather:...

Yeong-in, an editor, poetry student, and deaf person, attends a public reading of a poetry collection she has edited. Yeong-in records the poet's...

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. ...

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life,...

On a still morning by a lake, a fading poet reflects on a world that celebrates stories yet forgets the ones who write them. As memory and...