Diary Movies

Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding...

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

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...

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...

A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left...

Jessica has a lot on her mind before the work week begins.

Jonathan is in love with Julie, the most beautiful girl of his school... However, Julie doesn't even know him. He becomes friend with Charles,...

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

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...

The end of World War II brings Europe a new political system, reshapes national and personal identities. Three women from Milan, Paris and Berlin...

Rebellious teenager Wang Ququ is transferred to a new school, unhappy at home and at school he gets in trouble again and again.

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

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

A young woman suffers from blackouts, begins to document her everyday life in the form of a video diary and comes across discoveries that she would...

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

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...

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...