2025
NATURE & CULTURE: International Poetry Film Festival
This year, live screening events in Copenhagen, Malmö and Calgary!
Produced by the Poetic Phonoteque, in partnership with Red Door and the Calgary Public Library, we are pleased to announce the 2025 Nature and Culture International Poetry Film Festival.
For the month of October, the festival will unfold online at the Poetic Phonoteque website. Click on the following categories to watch the film selection online:
POETRY FILMS
ANIMATION
DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FILM
EXPERIMENTAL
For the first time, the live program will extend across three international cities, opening new grassroots connections for sharing and building ideas across borders.
This year’s program gathers 31-44 films from 16-20 countries, poetry films, animations, shorts, experimental works, and documentaries, each asking, in its own way: What is poetry? What is a poetry film? How might this form help us sense and build our relationship with nature and culture?
Live Screenings
- October 11 – Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark
- November 1 – STPLN The Lab, Malmö, Sweden
- November 5 – Central Library, Calgary, Canada
The festival is organized into four micro-festivals, each paired with a local reader. Where possible, directors’ talks and Q&A sessions with filmmakers will deepen the conversation.
Roots & Understories
What can the unseen lives of roots, moss, insects, and elements teach us about survival and repair? Soil, flora, and craft, attentive to what is small, humble, or buried, where regeneration begins.
Urban Entanglements & Dignity
How does poetic imagination reveal kinship—human and more-than-human—within built and contested places? Animals, workers, artists, and communities sharing city space with care, friction, and invention.
Language, Memory & Borders
How do poems carry culture across borders, holding grief, identity, and collective memory? Diaspora and place-making, language as landscape, routes as roots.
Planetary & Elemental Imaginaries
How can poetry help us sense planetary time and elemental change—ice, water, heat—beyond the human? From the intimate to the geologic, works that refract climate and slow time through imagination.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, please write to contact@poeticphonotheque.com
2024
Red Door celebrated the 4th edition of NATURE & CULTURE: International Poetry Film Festival, an exhilarating day of connecting with our community to celebrate the poetics of the world we inhabit.
This year, we received over 200 films, and held a wonderful day of screenings, talks and performances at EMPIRE BIO, our favorite local cinema in Nørrebro. This included the categories of animation, short film, documentary, experimental, and of course, poetry films… as well as plenty of popcorn, good company, some tears and lots of laughter.
The festival is a project by The Poetic Phonotheque, founded by the poet Elizabeth Torres and co-directed by Patrick Horner, and this year we counted with the presence of film directors, poets and other creatives from the Nordic region, the US, Latin America and India, who joined us for the celebration of our festival, which was also the final day of RESONANS: A fringe of Nature & Culture, the fringe festival we have created to mark the big occasion of Red Door’s 15th anniversary. We are super grateful for this collaboration with EMPIRE BIO and look forward to planning our 5th year of the festival (but first, winter and hygge).
From October 12-31 you can also watch the entire selection of films online, and learn more about this project at:
www.poeticphonotheque.com
This year’s gorgeous poster by Maria Meiga.
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Dear friends,
This year, we celebrated our 3rd NATURE & CULTURE festival in Copenhagen and online.
With over 500 submissions, this year we screened a selection of 93 fantastic films that encompass our call for poetic expressions of humanity’s connection with our environment.
All the poetry films will remain in our permanent archive, which you’re also welcome to browse through by navigating this website.
Special thanks to the Poetic Phonoteque’s partners, Kirjan Talo (Finland) and Kultivera (Sweden), as well as to South.Nord for this year’s collaboration, and to Husets Biograf for hosting our live screening event.
Copenhagen screening: Program
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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS FESTIVAL A SUCCESS.
Over 100 participating films, from all over the world, with great representation of indigenous communities, and a connecting environmental message… what a wonderful way to celebrate film, and poetic expressions in different media!
If you’d like to participate in the third version of our film festival, please submit your film to:
https://filmfreeway.com/poeticphonotheque
the THEME for 2023 is STRUCTURES & ORGANISMS.
Thanks to all filmmakers, poets, collaborators and participants for an engaging and inspiring experience we look forward to repeating.
Here are some memories from 2022:
