Poetry

Poetry 2010

7.60

A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

2010

Scaffolding

Scaffolding 2017

5.60

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.

2017

The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden 1961

7.00

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?

1961

Love Is Five Seven Five

Love Is Five Seven Five 2005

7.50

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

2005

Dante's Divine Politics

Dante's Divine Politics 2021

7.20

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he was both a direct witness and a narrator of his times and his poem is a remarkable geopolitical chronicle of a tumultuous period of the Middle Ages from 1300 to 1320, a time when Kings, Popes, rulers and warlords played a deadly chess game for the control of Europe. In this high end docudrama, some of the world's finest scholars will help provide historical context to the unfolding of events, making them accessible to a wide audience, and giving us a privileged viewpoint over one of the most eventful and funding chapters of European history.

2021