Diary Movies

A young man, unsatisfied with his life and overwhelmed by adulthood, reminisces about childhood to a dangerous degree.

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony o...

In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to follow in the shadow of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately however, something is...

Documentary about British author and actor Alan Bennett. Recorded over the course of a year, the film features a number of intimate encounters with Be...

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 y...

Between 1952 and 1953, the young doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna traveled through Latin America. This film is based on his diaries, the corresponde...

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression

Farewell letter to an old love.

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera an...

After the passing of her mother, Lorena finds the diary that she kept all her life. The entries allow her to discover a different woman. Having grown...

DIARY OF A CO-WORKER is a 2005 feature film created in Saint Louis, Missouri, and largely shot on-location at the historic Hi-Pointe Theatre. An expl...

A cow dreams away from the barn routine and goes out into the world, becomes a pop star, talks about world peace in the UN, takes a ride in space befo...

The narrative unfolds from the point-of-view of a single character named Roach. As part of the filmmaking process, he's been given a camera to documen...

Two sisters pontificate on the lives they could have led while observing the current guest, a listless writer, staying in their family’s vacation home...

How can the complex narrative of experience be understood as a coherent whole through the collection of states and thoughts? Since 2016, YR has dedic...

Shiroinu writes down the day’s events before he goes to sleep. One day, he opens a drawer buried in the snow and finds old diary entries. He realizes...

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and despera...

The discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.