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.

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

One entry from a daily visual journal.

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 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...

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

One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated...

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

Meditative diary film invoking reflection through low resolution

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

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