Haus für Poesie

Once again the next few days belong to the poetic film strips! We are celebrating the opening of this year’s ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival together with guests, filmmakers and poets. We present a cinematic teaser of the highlights and program focuses. ...more

The best poetry films from around the world – and the world in a microcosm of poetry film. Poets and filmmakers question social norms and postcolonial structures, breaking taboos. Where great poetry performance encounters a moving story. About 1,200 ...more

Mysterious monologues on the soundtrack. Worlds of thought between abyss and contemplation. Memories, partly invented, full of postcards, animals and fragmented things. We take a look into the world of ghosts and tortured souls. And show poetry films ...more

What if nature falls out of balance when artificial intelligences take control? To be seen here: Films about the consequences of progress (supposed) and destruction (real). Reports from an industry that causes cancer. Poetic commentaries on ...more

Everyday sounds merge into the great sound of the city. Poets reconcile with the past on forays through  hot spots of their districts. We hear a sonnet for a job interview, a summer sonata to a neighborhood, and a poem against a president. Images ...more

The best poetry films from around the world – and the world in a microcosm of poetry film. Poets and filmmakers question social norms and postcolonial structures, breaking taboos. Where great poetry performance encounters a moving story. About 1,200 ...more

A film program is part of the national focus, Italy. With selected poetry films from this year's submissions, as well as the best Italian films of the past years, ZEBRA will present various facets of Italy film and poetry scene. Landscape, love, ...more

People orbit each other like a planets orbits the sun. In a lament, bodies merge with the architecture of an abandoned bus station. These films ask questions about origins and arrivals, about togetherness and counterpart. Images and lines that ...more

What does it mean to translate a poetic image into an animated one? The transition from abstract thought to its translation into a visual image inevitably involves a compromise. What gets lost in this compromise, and what does the drawn image add to ...more

The best poetry films from around the world – and the world in a microcosm of poetry film. Poets and filmmakers question social norms and postcolonial structures, breaking taboos. Where great poetry performance encounters a moving story. About 1,200 ...more