Diary Film Movies

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...

A loose collection of scenes in Hong Kong shot over a five-year period, this film begins with the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and ends right before the...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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...

'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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Haunted by 9/11 a young woman obsessively watches airplanes from her flat on the 25th floor of a housing estate in London's impoverished Tower...

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

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

An unhinged, diaristic examination of devastating friendship breakups.

On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.

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

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

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...

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...