Diary Movies

In 1901, Argentine naval officer José María Sobral joins Otto Nordenskjöld’s Swedish scientific expedition to Antarctica....

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is...

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

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the...

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship...

Set in an all-girls Christian boarding school, Anna always feels like an outsider due to her ability to see ghosts. Her roommate, Rika, is the...

South of France: Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. Fredrico knows nothing...

Two college friends must split their close bond when one uproots her life. Years later, a sudden reunion could tether their lingering feelings.

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

"Art was an important factor of my childhood, where I would spend time watching mama, through the threads. Today I am back in Iceland, watching her...

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...

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome...

In January 1996 filming began on a new episode of Doctor Who set in San Francisco, but shot in Vancouver, Canada. Sylvester McCoy flew out to join...

In this video series an individual confronts fears and, through the process of confessing directly to the camera, transcends trauma. It is also about...

We follow Roach, a 17-year-old ex-junkie and squeegee punk living on the streets of Toronto and Montreal. As part of the filmmaking process, he's...

The story and diary of a young adult that, in order to learn and understand her own identity, had to learn to march the streets and the value of what...

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...

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...

Set in 1980s Sweden, an immigrant boy navigates a chaotic world of identity, love, and belonging. A kaleidoscopic journey through fragile places...

Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. ...