Diary Film Movies

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...

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

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

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

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

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...

A passionate foodie loses his beloved hawker stalls to corporate pressure, he reluctantly turns to processed food he calls 'trash' in a moment of...

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

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

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

What started as a random filming thing, during a music tour, slowly turned into the only way for me to deal with my post-performance blues. This film...

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...

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

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

'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...

A person narrates themself making a salad