Diary Film Movies

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

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

Farewell letter to an old love.

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 passionate foodie loses his beloved hawker stalls to corporate pressure, he reluctantly turns to processed food he calls 'trash' in a moment of...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

A short documentary project that attempts to encapsulate what it looks and feels like to be an American Teenager in 2022.

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...

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

'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...

'star born brutal' is a diaristic exploration of masculinity after experiencing a schizophrenic breakdown. Static memories recur and dissolve in a...

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

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...

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