Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate

Billy Collins is perhaps the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim. This documentary follows him from poetry readings and college classrooms to his home, office, and even into

Portrait of the Poet with His Double

A look at the life and thoughts of France Presern, arguably the most prominent Slovenian poet, as well as historical background of his time. How our tragic hero became a symbol of Slovenian culture.

Weniger isch meh - Housi Wittlin, Musiker und Poet

The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL (1969), based on the first play ever written by Bertolt Brecht. He describes his

A Poet on the Frontline: The Reportage of Ryszard Kapuscinski

A POET ON THE FRONTLINE will introduce audiences to the world of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the famous daredevil war correspondent and one of the world's most important contemporary literary figures. Known as "Indiana Jones wi

Nekyia: Inner portrait of the poet Hradecky

The poet Daniel Hradecký is the prime mover of a transgenre film about a journey into the depths of one's own consciousness. This black and white documentary parable looks into the soul of man through the interplay of so

The Sea, The Bougainvillea and The Poet Shu Ting

A daughter accompanied her mother to visit her old friends on an island in South China. Subtle emotions that had been long hidden gradually emerged during the trip. As she uncovered them, the daughter chose to record the

The Poet who become a Bird

After her grandfather's death, Joana returns to the farm where she spent her vacations in the paradisiacal Brazilian Pantanal in search of the greatest inheritance that the wise old man could leave her: a manuscript with

The Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde

An imaginary biopic, THE BODY OF A POET centers on the efforts of a group of young lesbians of color to devise a fitting tribute to one of this century's great visionaries. Its genre-bending celebration of the life and w

Kazi Nazrul Islam: People's Poet

Kazi Nazrul Islam was a rebel poet of Bengal whose pen spat fire in the `twenties' and `thirties', the fiery years of Indian politics.It depicts the Poet's life and his dedication to the cause of freedom and secularism.

William Blake and the Poet's Journey

A short animated history of the works of William Blake.

Mad Song for Life: Shi Zhi the Poet

Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer

Alan Berliner has been chronicling the final years of his friend, cousin, and former mentor, Edwin Honig - distinguished poet, translator, critic, and teacher - into the depths of Alzheimer's disease. Among many other ho

A Dead Poet's Dreams

A poet runs away from his society, can no longer live in it, goes to a distant place and lives alone, suddenly there he sees death.

The Poet’s Wife

The paintings of the artist Güler Yücel tell about weddings and funerals, of almond blossom and olive harvest, of her husband, the poet, and of herself, her love of life and wisdom. “I can’t paint anything that I have

Bohemia: The Life of a New York City Poet

This documentary film displayed the personalities of many poets in New York City through their deep poetry and revealing interviews. Their poems are truly the stories of the streets of New York City. If the sidewalks can

The Poet's Unrest

Shadow Sister: a Film Biography of Australian Aboriginal Poet Kath Walker

This documentary shows the well-known Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) living on Stradbroke Island, Queensland, the place that was once the home of her native tribe. She welcomes visitors, particularly Ab

A Portrait of the Poet as James Broughton (Part One)

"I know only that this work is an homage to that begun in cinema by Jean Cocteau in his famous trilogy and that, through James, I have become his successor, however unworthy, to continue the work. This film is the first

Left Lane: On the Road with Folk Poet Alix Olson

A year in the making, Left Lane chronicles life on the road with Alix and her road manager/filmmaker Samantha Farinella as they tour the country connecting the dots from a high school visit in Lincoln, Nebraska to a CD r