Movies: Writing

This landmark documentary reveals the tragic life of a gifted young woman who was executed for speaking out during the height of Chairman Mao’s rule....

A writer turns his sense of alienation and isolation during a party in the house of the woman he loves into an astronaut's lonely journey to an unknown planet. Both - writer and astronaut - set out in search of answers and life in hostile environment...

Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur to find the answer. En route, they meet Richard Branson and Eddie Izzard, and many other successful dy...

Mason Mecartea and Rob Hull push their brains to the limits in order to make the perfect film submission for Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Film Festival....

A documentary about calligraphy....

A struggling author doubts her inspiration....

Several puppets convene at a wooded retreat for a weekend-long writing workshop in which secrets are spilled and lives changed....

A normal night is changed by a prewritten script...

A son inherits the unhealthy habits of his work-obsessed father to write the perfect student short story....

When Roger Lee slips on his front steps, he has no idea the fall will send him spiralling into the darkest chapter of his life. Injured, and drowning in despair, he hits rock bottom—until he discovers the power of his own words. Through pain, he find...

Following the success of her debut novel, All This Could Be Different, author Sarah Thankam Mathews embarks on her second novel, drawing from her adolescence between India and Oman. As Sarah excavates lost place and time, she must contend with the we...

Documentary about the writer Thomas Verbogt and the creation of his latest work. The film shows how Verbogt takes a radical experience from his earliest childhood as the starting point for a novel. Drawn animations, combined with filmed scenes, depic...

The narration of a letter which consists of themes such as the passing of time, the unexpectedness of life, the fear of death, and the fear of change....

A man writing a script slowly realises that what he is writing is happening real-time...

A mysterious young woman will appear in Clément’s solitary life. She will guide him and accompany him to his inner liberation....

Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman, Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to attend—and graduate from—Miami of Ohio. After graduate work at UK, he left for the Left Coast, and it suite...

A writer becomes obsessed with creating the greatest novel....

Russian Roulette takes you on a journey across Russia and Ukraine, exploring post-soviet underground- systems of Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Moscow, Nizhny, Novgorod, and St. Petersburg. The reason why there isn't a cast or a crew list and all the artists...

Dark and humorous, this extremely short film features a stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the subconscious, or somewhere....

As night falls, Karen decides to leave the party where a friend is about to lose herself. A metaphor for life, this battlefield....