6/6/25
Fri,
19:30

Zebra Poetry Film Festival
International Competition I

Film
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2025
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Boat Song – Director: Sandeep Ashwath

The best poetry films from around the world - and the world in the microcosm of poetry film. This is where great poetry performances meet moving stories. Over 1,000 entries from more than 90 countries were submitted for the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2025. A program committee has nominated 21 of them for the International Competition. They are competing for three awards: the “ZEBRA Award for the Best Poetry Film”, donated by Haus für Poesie, the “Goethe Film Award - The Art of Listening”, donated by the Goethe-Institut, and the “Ritter Sport Film Award”, donated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. Decisions for the awards will be made by a jury comprising Christine Franz (music journalist and documentary film director, Germany), Ariane von Graffenried (Poet, Switzerland) and Anne Isensee (Filmmaker, Germany)

The screenings are generally shown in the original version with English subtitles. Unless otherwise announced, the event languages are German and English.

The short film program also deals with topics such as violence, separation, loss and emotional stress. Some films contain explicit depictions and intense emotional scenes that can be disturbing.

The event takes place at Kuppelhalle.

NEMO 1
CAN 2024 | 12 min | Director: Albéric Aurtenèche | Poem: The Rebel | Poet: Kazi Nazrul Islam

Extremely Short
JPN 2024 | 5 min | Director: Koji Yamamura | Poem: Totemo mijikai | Poet: Furukawa Hideo

Boat Song
IND 2024 | 3 min | Director: Sandeep Ashwath | Poem: She staked her Feathers-Gained an Arc | Poet: Emily Dickinson.

Mum Does The Washing
GBR 2024 | 5 min | Director: Iman Omar | Poem: Mum Does The Washing | Poet: Ehimwenma Joshua Idehen

Een Olifant in de Porseleinkast / An Elephant in the Porcelain Cabinet
NLD 2024 | 5 min | Director: Bonne Steinz | Poem: Een Olifant in de Porseleinkast | Poet: Bonne Steinz

Thronebosis
PRT 2024 | 2 min | Director: Marco Espirito Santo | Poem: Thronebosis | Poet: Marco Espirito Santo

Found Poetry. Four Verses
UKR 2025 | 8 min | Director: Dmytro Bondarchuk | Poems: Do not go gentle into that good night / No Man Is an Island / Sonnet 29 / Invictus | Poets: Dylan Thomas / John Donne / William Shakespeare / William Ernest Henley

synch : swim
USA 2023 | 2 min | Director: Rana San | Poem: synch : swim | Poet: Rana San

Tīrība / Cleanliness
LVA 2025 | 5 min | Director: Andrejs Brīvulis | Poem: Tīrība | Poet: Kārlis Vērdiņš

Acicalado / Spotless
ARG 2024 | 10 min | Director: Denise Umaschi | Poem: Acicalado | Poet: Denise Umaschi