Literature Movies

Poetry, literature, painting and old film clips converge in this lyrical, unusually designed film essay about Le Moulin, the Taiwanese poets’...

A man wrestles with the nature of life after death and the purpose of his soul over the shadowy presence of his lost love, Lenore.

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...

It chronicles the legend of the progressive Telugu poet-saint Vemana from his being a rebellious and hedonistic youth from a landed elite to a...

VPRO icon Wim Brands died on April 4, 2016. He was known to the general public as a presenter of the VPRO Boeken program and also closer, with six...

Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.

The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they...

Cecilia arrives in Guadalajara for the first time to study at the Faculty of Literature and become a writer. There she meets Nicolás and...

A visit to the extravagant house where Victor Hugo spent his exile in Guernsey between 1855 and 1870, the Hauteville House, entirely designed by the...

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

"Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It's been years since Beatrice died. Dante, now...

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his...

The people of Antiquity had little problem with nudity and would not find graphic depictions of sexual acts as morally suspect or obscene. But...

Published in 1949, The Second Sex became the bible of global feminism. An essential work that passionately advocates for gender equality, women's...

Franz works for the Japanese, but makes a mistake and the corporation condemns him to wander through a harrowing virtual setting.

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois...