Diary Film Movies

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his...

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

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

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

A young girl turns into an A-List celebrity over night when her private journal is accidently published and becomes a best-seller.

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...

Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part...

A person narrates themself making a salad

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...

Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life.

'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...

One fine morning it stopped working and I realized my little compact camera was dying. So I started taking as many photos as possible with it before...

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...

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

Sara and Alberto spend their days at home. They look out the window and watch: spring is approaching and the sun is setting later and later. Alberto...

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...

An unhinged, diaristic examination of devastating friendship breakups.

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...