Trauma Movies

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many...

In a remote Turkish village, a timid young man is haunted by his childhood and the mysterious death of his sister. Nightmares and unsettling visions...

A woman grapples with the traumatic childhood memory of losing one of her baby teeth.

Nat's life forever changed when he received an email that someone had been urinating in the hallway of his dorm...

A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too...

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

Ava is a child with a limitless imagination. She is a city kid who loves to play in her bedroom and letting herself get carried by her vivid dreams....

A teenage girl is forced to upend her life after accidentally getting pregnant.

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white...

Gabi is undermined when her only friend gets attention from the boy who assaulted her in the past. As night falls on Tel Aviv, the friendship is...

Roxana follows a young mother’s return to the juvenile detention center she was once incarcerated in, now as a trained somatic therapist....

FALSELY SO-CALLED is an existential story of a mother’s life that documents her descent to her inevitable death as reality literally begins to...

A man struggling to keep his life from unraveling turns to therapy as a last attempt to regain control, hoping it will steady the growing pressure...

A musician's growth beyond a cult.

ten years ago, four girls were hunted down by cold blooded killers and miraculously survived. today, three people are forcibly reunited at a...

Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the...

Hopper, a Vietnam vet riddled with PTSD is taken under the wing of a charismatic undercover CIA agent, Reese, promising him a newly repaired mind....

If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war...