Jazz and Poetry

Short film documenting a performance by poet Ted Jones in combination with music by the Peter Kuiters Modern Jazz Group.

E.E. CUMMINGS. THE MAKING OF A POET

About the poetry of a man, Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962).

Meth + Murder in P-town, Isn't That What Poetry Is About?

Perhaps the way to deal with the adversary is confront him in ourselves. We have to fight for little bit of health. We have to make our living and dieing important again. and the living and dieing of others. Isn't that w

FABRIZIO DE ANDRÈ – PAROLE E MUSICA DI UN POETA

Pride Poets

A group of queer poets organizes to bring poetry to the public at Los Angeles Pride, writing on typewriters based on the stories people share with them about love, and discovering themselves in their community.

Konstantin Wecker: Poesie und Widerstand

One Million Poets

After the worst case of writer's block could keep him from feeding his son, a depressed alcoholic novelist with disdain for critics must confront his recent past and discover the real culprit behind his wife's early demi

Julia Engelmann - Jetzt Baby Poesie und Musik

Claude Gauvreau - Poète

A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.

Forbidden Love Poem

Lost pink film

I am Your Poet

This documentary was to be on a revolutionary poet and his poetry. It became a story of a person who lives a poem. And as we journey through the poetry and the poet, we end up with a mirror. In the mirror, a roughly-hew

Tang Poetry

Holding a shaking hand with another hand, a former pickpocket confines himself in his apartment. He doesn’t talk to anyone for long. There is only one woman with whom he communicates.

René Depestre, poète haïtien

Maldoror casts a sympathetic light on one of Haitian literature’s most influential figures, the poet and political activist René Depestre.

The Bullets Of The Poets

An insight into the women fighting against the violent dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua and how poetry underlies and expresses their passion for change and freedom from tyranny.

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

Akai Ghost Poems

A compilation of video footage from the Yellow House, Potts Point, Sydney, July 1971.

A Poet is Killed

The documentary "A Poet is Killed" recounts the story of the murder of contemporary poet and writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was killed during The chain murders in 1998 in Iran.

Poeta na traktorze

The director observes the poet—a peasant from the village of Gulcz—as he goes about his daily work in the fields.

Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947) is well known as one of Canada's prominent early literary figures. He is less famous as a federal civil servant who rose to become a powerful head of the Indian Department, and who, from

Poets of the Past -- Fallen Chinar

The film follows young Kashmiri artists as they engage with their cultural past, tracing literary traditions and Sufi folk poetry passed down through generations. Against a backdrop of political turmoil and uncertainty,