Nature & Culture International Film Festival

NATURE & CULTURE: International Poetry Film Festival

This festival focuses on the poetics of nature and environment, and takes place annually in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Malmö, Sweden, and in Calgary, Canada, as well as an online festival which is of free access at poeticphonotheque.com during the festival dates.

The Organizers:

The Poetic Phonotheque started in 2020 as an audio collection of poetry from all over the world which now counts with over 1000 adiovisual poems in all languages and an international permanent collection of poetry films. The Poetic Phonotheque is managed by Red Door Gallery in Copenhagen, which also counts with its own magazine www.reddoormagazine.com since 2009. The Poetic Phonotheque is also a registered non-profit organization in the U.S and Canada.

The festival was founded by the poet Elizabeth Torres (Nordic region) and is co-directed by the poet Patrick Horner (Canada).

In 2026, NATURE & CULTURE International Poetry Film Festival will screen digitally throughout the month of October on the website of the Poetic Phonotheque: www.poeticphonotheque.com

And will have LIVE screenings of selected films in the 3 mentioned countries.
The Canada event takes place at the central Calgary Public Library in September.
The Sweden event takes place at STPLN in Malmö on September 05.
and the location of the Copenhagen event varies per year, with the base of the project being Red Door Gallery in Copenhagen, and the main festival taking place in September.

We invite you to submit your films on this important subject of environmental consciousness communicated through a poetic language, whether they're animation, short film, poetry film, experimental, or documentaries. A focus on the NATURE & CULTURE (humanity's connection with our environment) is encouraged.