1. Poet of His People
Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action, still footage, computer images, dance and poetry.
2. Marie Uguay (Marie Uguay)
Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film.
3. Karl's Perfect Day
A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
4. Though You May Not Know (Aunque tú no lo sepas: la poesía de Luis García Montero)
An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Zurita, You Will See Not to See (Zurita, verás no ver)
An account of the experiences by poet and National Literature Award laureate Raúl Zurita, during his travels and his daily life, as he reflects on topics such as state terrorism and death
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
6. The Eyes of Dante (Gli Occhi di Dante)
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
7. Tell Me the Truth About Love
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" , "Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love" and "As I Walked Out One Evening". This film centres on new interviews with Auden’s close friends and looks at how his most important relationships were reflected in some of the greatest poems of the 20th century.
8. Angel of the Night (Nattens engel)
Michael Strunge and other young Danish poets, accompanied by images of night-time Copenhagen.
9. Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The Waste Land” an expression of the exhaustion and fragmentation that afflicted so many in that post-war era. They also recognized the originality of Eliot’s poetic technique and admired his insistence on the need for spiritual values in an age of popular kitsch.
10. Karel Jonckheere (Karel Jonckheere)
Documentary about the life and work of Flemish poet Karel Jonckheere looked at from four perspectives/professions: farmer, fisherman, sheepherder and hunter.
11. A Little Love
Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of love, what it means, and why it matters.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Francisco Massiani (Francisco Massiani)
This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the details of his work and the love of his life.
13. Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential Margaret envisaged for film as a poetic medium.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
14. Even Today He’d Speak His Mind (Er könnte ja heute nicht schweigen)
Documentary about the German poet Erich Weinert.
15. A Choice (Chọn Lựa)
Refuse to compromise to choose freedom
16. The Poem, My Old Mother (시인 할매)
(시인 할매)
17. Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa (Ekelöf's Blick - En Nordisk Diktarresa)
Ekelöf's Blick is a film about swedish poet and mystic Gunnar Ekelöf. The film is an attempt to visually articulate how Ekelöf saw things, a world characterized by an enigmatic beauty never previously formulated in such a way.
18. Jean Sénac, The Blacksmith of the Sun (Jean Sénac, Le Forgeron Du Soleil)
By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his voice is a little louder every day. Witnesses to these craze: the publication of the complete works of this great poet, the countless conferences and radio broadcasts devoted to him and finally the production of films such as "Jean Sénac, the blacksmith of the sun". The moving and overwhelming testimonies of those who knew him, the unpublished film archives, the generous voice of the poet on the radio, the discovery of his travels in the territories of poetry and politics make this film a precious document on the life of Jean Senac.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. Libellula gentile. Fabio Pusterla, il lavoro del poeta (Libellula gentile. Fabio Pusterla, il lavoro del poeta)
A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the personal experience and is able to unfold a hidden truth that creates a strong and profound bond with the other, with his public.
20. The Voyage of Bashô (Le voyage de Bashô)
A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô , the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journeys through Japan, following Bashô's journal and writing many of his haikus. A ruminant, poetic, Zen Buddhist observation of nature – a return to the lost paradise of unspoilt nature.