A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova; shot in winter in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), it contains rare interviews with people who knew her, academics, and dramatized readings of some of her poems.
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of litera...

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching f...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Pro...

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...

A fourteen-minute documentary splitted in two parts where we can see Anne Sexton at her home reading...

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

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spi...