Personal Diary Movies

Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement...

Every morning, Marcel confides in his tape recorder. It is from his reflections on life that this film takes us into the wake of his story.

It has been a year since Juliette’s sister has passed and she hasn’t been doing so well since that day, but she must learn how to be kind...

When director Iván Guarnizo's mother passes during the first days of peace talks with FARC-EP in Colombia, a door opens to explore a dark and...

"A socially anxious college student reluctantly heads to a party attempting to make new friends. Nande Walters directs “Who Are You...

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his...

A somber journey on the road. A post with three lights. A crowded street. Stashed cables. The city. A grey square. The sun's reflection. The sun....

How is secularism depicted in films? The term "Aa'La'Ma'Ni" means worldly in Arabic. It's significant in the Middle East, where secularism is...

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

A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three...

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment.

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

Hasse is 8 years old. His parents are drinking and arguing. Every day Hasse picks up his diary from the hideout behind the radiator to write down his...

In 2011, the director and screenwriter Wolf Gremm receives the diagnosis - prostate cancer. According to the doctors, he has not much longer to live,...

In 2016, Aekaphong’s uncle was murdered in his house alongside his wife. A year later, Aekaphong returns to his hometown to investigate the...

A 20 day, 240 mile solo thru-hike of the JMT in August 2014, over 11 passes, across Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks, the John Muir...

Wild Butterfly is true crime documentary that follows the tragic story of 24 year-old Claire Murray and her desperate search for a life- saving liver...