The Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival, now on its 5th edition, explores the intersection between poetic language, visual media, and ecological and cultural narratives.
Organized by Red Door and the Poetic Phonotheque, the festival brings together a curated selection of poetry films from around the world—works that blur the boundaries between cinema and literature, and between personal reflection and global urgency. In 2025, the festival arrives to Sweden thanks to a collaboration with STPLN Malmö, and to Canada as part of the programming of Calgary Public Library, and continues its yearly screening in Copenhagen at Husets Biograf.
This year’s program will feature over 30 short film screenings, live poetry readings, filmmaker talks, and critical conversations addressing themes of environmental change, memory, displacement, and the multiplicity of cultural identity. The festival serves both as an artistic platform and an archival project, with selected works joining the Poetic Phonotheque’s international collection of poetry films.
OCTOBER 11 - Copenhagen, Husets Biograf, Denmark
NOVEMBER 01 - Malmö, STPLN, Sweden
NOVEMBER 05 - Calgary Public Library, Canada
Learn more at:
www.poeticphonotheque.com
Spanning continents, the festival creates a poetic thread between the three cities, linking audiences through films that reflect on environment, culture, and imagination. Featuring 32 films from 18 countries, the program includes documentaries, poetry films, animations, experimental works, and short narratives, each contributing to an international conversation on how we inhabit the world, remember our histories, navigate contemporary life, and dream new futures. The program is organized into four curated microfestivals, each running around an hour in length:
EARTHWORKS & ECOLOGIES
Cinematic meditations on land, water, climate, and more-than-human worlds.
These films listen to forests, rivers, ice, and desert, showing how humans and the planet are bound together. Documentaries and poetic works alike reflect on resilience, fragility, and our responsibility to the living earth.
MIGRATION, MEMORY & MYTH
Poetic journeys through belonging and displacement.
These films move through archives, languages, and inherited stories. They explore diaspora, ancestry, and the myths that carry us forward, revealing the intimate links between memory and identity across generations.
CITY / CIRCUIT / SKIN
Where bodies meet infrastructure and nature meets technology.
This program traverses urban landscapes, digital frictions, and hybrid ecologies. Animated, experimental, and documentary films highlight how plants, animals, humans, and machines coexist and collide within contemporary circuits.
DREAMING FORMS
Experiments in seeing and sounding, where image, rhythm, and voice remake reality.
These films embrace surreal, poetic, and experimental approaches, collage, animation, lyric cinema, that transport us into dreamlike states, prophetic visions, and playful reimaginings of the world.
Through these four interwoven journeys, the 2025 Nature and Culture Film Festival offers audiences not only a diverse selection of international films, but also a shared poetic space where nature and culture meet in cinema.