Childhood Trauma Movies

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or...

A horribly burned man escapes from a mental institution and terrorizes teenagers at a party.

A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote...

A young man suffering from significant childhood trauma believes there are portals to the darkness around him that can be accessed through extreme...

Past/present story of a young man who lives in a fantasy world of aeronautics to escape a more challenging reality.

Johnny Taylor has a big problem: he LOVES to drown good-looking girls. When he sees water and attractive females together, something in his head begs...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

Blind Spot is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter...

An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual assault.

In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken...

A mentally disturbed "Hamburger Killer" stalks the streets murdering unsuspecting fast food diners in this 1978 low budget comedy-horror short.

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

After a brief encounter with another boy at age 11, Ari Wallenmeier is forced to undergo Conversion Therapy. Now 35 years old and “fixed", Ari...

"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her...