Diary Film Movies

Farewell letter to an old love.

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...

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...

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 intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing.

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

'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 average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything.

Two teen boys living in an isolated house in the mountains contemplate their existence while maintaining a video diary of their daily lives.

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

'star born brutal' is a diaristic exploration of masculinity after experiencing a schizophrenic breakdown. Static memories recur and dissolve in a...