Michael Ondaatje Movies

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert...

Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends...

Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and...

An overview of the life and career of Canadian folk musician Bruce Cockburn.

The story of Canada's leading poet and the A-Frame cabin he built. Now Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of Al...

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of...

"Canada's convention-shattering voice of poetry" (Globe and Mail). Michael Ondaatje documents the work and spirit of fellow poet bpNichol...

Ondaajte's whimsical slapstick 'docu-drama' follows a couple of crooked Canadian poets who try to kidnap a dog.

"Michael Ondaatje called Gwendolyn MacEwen 'the last of the bardic poets'. In the early 60s, she astonished the nascent beat scene at Toronto's...

Michael Ondaatje chronicles a group of actors who, in 1972, went into an Ontario farming community to build a play of what they saw and learned. This...