Poem Movies

Images complement what is always lacking in words. The poems complement what is always present in the city. Freely inspired by the poetry Cidade City...

A storm is on the horizon. When a jet-black cloud engulfs a small village, the residents discover that it could put an end to more than just blue skie...

Sophie is both attracted to boys and girls. She is torn between Nicolas and Mathilde.

A sumptuous short film of friendship and adoration between boys, based on a poem by Peter LeBerge. Moments of joy, bonding and roughhousing on a schoo...

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Gogu’s feelings living with his parents for the past 28 years and still being a (fat) jobless filmmaker.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, wh...

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a wo...

A short film written by Hussain Manawer about 2020 and mental health.

A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

1939 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi.

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

A poet and his walk through a future of the dystopian present.

Poem in a frame.

A spoken word piece about an autistic person experiencing sensory overload in a world that rejects their existence.