Diary Film Movies

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...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

An experimental coming-of-age odyssey through someone's troubled mind, going from country to country, landscape to landscape, growing up in the...

A woman walks, loves, eats and washes herself, dances. It all takes place in a bedroom. At times flashbacks, or visualizations of previous or...

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...

At seventy-two, my grandmother Rosi wanders among the properties she built in the past as she searches for her place in the world while dealing with...

While attempting to record life as it was, Arthur unintentionally documents his family’s unraveling.

Spanning over 70 years, two women recount their experiences growing up in Colombia and immigrating to Canada. Intersecting with key moments in...

Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of...

Blending candid interviews, experimental moments, and reflective narration, this 55-minute personal doc explores what it means to grow up when the...

'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...

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

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

A letter of love to my past self who discovered himself.

Meditative diary film invoking reflection through low resolution

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...

I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I...

An unhinged, diaristic examination of devastating friendship breakups.