Poets of Protest

The Sahrawi war po­et­ess is a vivid tes­ta­ment to three decades of the Sa­hara con­flict.

Thanks to his out­spo­ken work the Pales­tin­ian poet finds him­self wan­der­ing the world with his note­book his only se­cu­ri­ty.

It is lethal for the poet to write in Iraq, so she strug­gles to in­spire from snowy Nor­way.

The for­mer fight­er jour­neys across Lebanon to ex­plain why he now bat­tles for change with noth­ing but words.

Ex­iled in Paris, the Syr­i­an poet de­spairs for her coun­try as the cri­sis there deep­ens.

Dubbed the voice of Egypt’s rev­o­lu­tion, this film fol­lows an 83-year-old find­ing his place in a rev­o­lu­tion of the young.