Diary Film Movies

Filmmaker Jon Beaton has always felt like an outsider. When TikTok’s powerful algorithm starts sending him content from the app’s...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

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...

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

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

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

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a...

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...

The day with the sky neither too blue nor too grey. With a hint of red. The train crowded and the backpacks between the feet. The loves on every...

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

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 improvisation, a visual variation

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

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

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

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...

Meditative diary film invoking reflection through low resolution

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

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