Diary Film Movies

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

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

Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

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

Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted,...

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against...

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.

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

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...

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

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

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...

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

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

First part of "La trilogía de las frutas" and the first short film belonging to the "Manifiesto Helsinki" film movement.

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...

A short documentary by Jim McBride.