Poetry Movies

A love letter to cinema and a personal reflection on loneliness. Segment from Fringe Hippo's anthology film "Elegy Apokalypto".

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy...

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist...

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering...

Lauren Thomas is turning 40 and no one is more excited than her. She is married to Andrew, an amazing husband, a true provider and father. Andrew's...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele...

A nervous young poet takes the stage to perform, but as he speaks, his words are shown through a symbolic inner world where self-confinement takes...

Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an...

Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic...

Three surreal stories intertwine in a strange anthology of causality, effect and consequence: An actress who will do everything in her power to get...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much controversy in the period...

Three spoken word poets and event organizers based in Dublin - Melissa Ridge, Hazel Hogan and Kasey Shelley - reveal the positive impact poetry has...

A boy recalls his grandmother’s guidance on how to cross the street. Retracing this ritual, his memory, faith, and childhood converge.

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

Four Montrealers search for their path within their failing metropolis, mirroring the deterioration of their deepest ambitions. A cinepoetic journey...

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even...