Poetry

Poetry follows Mija, a genteel woman in her sixties who cares for her sullen grandson and works part time as a carer. As she signs up for a poetry class and struggles to write her first poem, she receives an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's and discovers that her grandson was among the boys responsible for a girl's suicide. The film follows her through the collision of these burdens.

It braids memory loss, guilt, and moral awakening into a single quiet reckoning, as the search for a poem becomes the search for how to see, and answer for, what has happened. It is a study of conscience forming even as the mind that holds it begins to fail. It won Best Screenplay at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.