Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

Change and Don't

2025

An intimate visual poem explores the delicate balance between change and stillness, inspired by Ethan TK Trinh’s 2025 poetry collection, “Change and Don’t.”

Cowboy Poets

1988 · ★ 10

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history. Cowboy Poets travels to the big sky country of Nevada, Montana, and Arizona to explore the tradition and to introduce three working cowboys, and the poetry they write about the lifestyle and land they love: Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite, and Wally McRae.

Riding the Highline

2015 · ★ 7

A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping freight trains across the country. Shot over the summer of 2013 on the Burlington Highline route from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Wenatchee, Washington.

Armando Rojas Guardia: El esplendor y la espera

2005

Documentary about the Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia.

Brașov 1987. Two Years Too Early

2017 · ★ 9

A documentary covering the Rebellion of Brașov, from November 15, 1987.

No Regret

1993 · ★ 4.6

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

four frames; four stories

Inspired by the poetry of Robert Frost, this short primarily aims to capture the dynamic nature of the world around us; the ego and the id; the past and the present; everything that has, as of yet, diluted the course of life as we know it.

Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat

2001 · ★ 7.3

No synopsis available.

I Will Dance

2015

Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey to New York City to share their story of hope, resilience, and overcoming.

Primavera Lacrimógena

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

Cowboy Poets

2022 · ★ 7

Since 1985, poets, songwriters and musicians have gathered at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.

This Beggar's Description

2006

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended family, including his daughter, share their conflicted feelings love, guilt, shame, anger with the camera. They want to make sure he's safe, but how much can they take?