Diary Film Movies

Through phone call conversations, an aspiring Ilocano filmmaker relates to his mother working in Italy about his dreams and struggles while...

A short documentary project that attempts to encapsulate what it looks and feels like to be an American Teenager in 2022.

Somewhere between a diary and a filmed letter made while Caroline Champetier was shooting Benoît Jacquot's film L'Intouchable in India.

A filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August...

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and...

A loose collection of scenes in Hong Kong shot over a five-year period, this film begins with the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and ends right before the...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at...

Inspired by the works of Jonas Mekas, Chantal Akerman and Angela Schanelec, Ive made what is my longest film diary so far. One that spans my two week...

This short experimental diary film reveals my struggles with mental illness in my adolescence and queer adulthood while simultaneously reflecting...

It compiles more than twenty years of passionately recorded “pictures from life” captured on super 8, that Vukica Djilas shot from 1970...

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All...

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Soare is a musician with too little inspiration and too many neurons baked from smoking weed. One day, he decides that his life has become too...

An unhinged, diaristic examination of devastating friendship breakups.

'Eigi Sylhet' is a journey of my self-discovery. With no narrative, this two-minute diary film paints a portrait of my resilience and artistic...

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against...

An enigmatic glimpse of life through precarious vignettes, propelling a narrative through a nebulous and opaque structure that sutures the...

An old man comes across a fascinating archive, then meets a woman who introduces him to the life of a banker, patron and philanthropist. A moving...