Personal Diary Movies

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...

Theo (Théo Deliyannis) made three consecutive trips to the island of Syros in Greece, where part of his family had lived. He knew the island...

A boy finds a red notebook on the beach and ends up making unlikely friends with a magical book dwelling spirit.

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...

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....

Thoughts, sometimes just numbers, reach us from offscreen almost like music, like a mantra or a prayer. What we see are circular fragments from...

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...

A personal film about my past 22 years, pieced together using all kinds of SD, HD, 4K, film materials.

Writing late becomes usual, we are always too late. Boris was my alter ego and I was his alter ego. Now that he is no longer here, I can be honest.