Trauma Movies

Barbara was caring for her grandchildren when her granddaughter Tiara was taken from school by welfare workers. Barbara fought for the next seven...

A mysterious young woman will appear in Clément’s solitary life. She will guide him and accompany him to his inner liberation.

After the unexpected death of her twin sister, a young woman makes an escape to her family’s cabin to get away from her own feelings of trauma...

Some time ago, Mima had a car accident and a man died. She has almost managed to forget about it when someone starts sending her birthday cards...

A boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance.

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue their advance, his wife and small daughters flee...

A story about a man who wakes up in a mysterious, inescapable room, leading to an extraordinary journey that unfolds afterward.

Michael is an alcoholic. He abuses his wife, barely tolerating his kid. He enslaved them in paranoia, and through alcoholism delivered them into...

A young painter caught in the vicious cycle of creativity must overcome her innermost turmoil.

Thirty years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), a filmmaker seeks to explore the trauma inflicted by the war on her family....

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be.

This psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as...

Lou (29) is a present-day nomad. Forever in search of the ultimate kind of freedom, she’s long ago blocked out what it is she is actually...

A traumatised mother sets off on a personal mission to retrieve her daughter’s favourite stuffed animal from their old home, but can she pull...

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection,...