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Llámame Dolores

On the threshold of her old age, Dolores faces a wall full of memories.

2024

The Voyage of Bashô

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journe

2019

Three Haiku Videos

A collection of three short 'haiku videos' by Chris Marker. The first haiku, 'Yanka / Tchaika', shows the river Seine passing under a bridge. A bird

1994

Aeon

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth,

2004

Tchaïka

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

1994

Petite Ceinture

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

1994

Owl Gets in Your Eyes

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

1994

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

2021

I Imagine a Text that Changes

A haiku about a window and a woman.

2020

Four Haikus

Twelve shots, four sequences. Each of them will try to evoke a feeling, a sensation, an idea, a landscape… just like the iconic and transcendental Jap

2024

My Neighbors the Yamadas

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that ran

1999

Love Is Five Seven Five

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

2005

Winter Days

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collecti

2003

FALL

2023

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs h

1935

Eternal Return

A poet and a spirit have an ongoing deal: Haiku for life.

2022

circles

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

2014

Monks

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

2016

Black Power is Green Power

2022

Nobody

Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished novels to discover that after several decades, the ho

2017