Paul Casey and Colm Scully, the judges of the  10th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Competition hosted a very successful hybrid event on Sunday 27th November. For Moving Poems they are also kindly working on their top ten films of classic poems, as part of a fresh series of Top Tens that will be coming to the site soon (see previous top tens). Until then, here is a top ten to celebrate 10 years of the Ó Bhéal competition with the newly crowned 10th winner included in the list with the nine previous winners.

2022 Winner

Jelle Meys – Belgium – La Luna Asoma (The moon appears) (3:37)

Past winners

2013 Winner

Manuel Vilarinho – Portugal – No País Dos Sacanas (In the Land of Bastards) (3:50)

2014 Winner

Marleen van der Werf – Netherlands – Wadland (9:19)

2015 Winner

Cheryl Gross – USA – In The Circus Of You (6:07)

2016 Winner

Marie Craven – Australia – Dictionary Illustrations (2:13)

2017 Winner

Kayla Jeanson – Canada – Descrambled Eggs (4:14)

2018 Winner

Álvaro Martín – Spain – Accident de Personne (3:35)

2019 Winner

Fiona Aryan – Ireland – Virginia gave me Roses (2:05)

2020 Winner

Peta-Maria Tunui, Waitahi Aniwaniwa McGee, Shania Bailey-Edmonds, Jesse-Ana Harris, Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen – Māori, Pākehā and Colombian – Noho Mai (5:33)

2021 Winner

Janet Lees – Isle of Man/England – What I fear most is becoming ‘a poet’ (6:10)