Diary Movies

Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that...

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

Emma, who lives in a small boring town, writes about her life and inner thoughts in her diary.

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

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...

An unexpected event brings together an unlikely group of students.

A young woman drifts through a series of intimate encounters while writing in her diary about loneliness and her need to be seen.

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression

A cow dreams away from the barn routine and goes out into the world, becomes a pop star, talks about world peace in the UN, takes a ride in space...

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

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 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...

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 discovery of a VHS tape of the artist's films on eBay triggers obsessive speculation about the seller's identity.

Petchara Chaowarat plays a Country girl, Pimchawee, who is caught in a love triangle while her grandmother threatens to disclose her private love...

After the passing of her mother, Lorena finds the diary that she kept all her life. The entries allow her to discover a different woman. Having grown...

After the making of my previous film (PLAY DEAD!), some unfinished business remained on my desktop. Home movies and various body horror films from my...

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