Trauma Movies

When estranged sisters Jade and Amber attend their mother’s funeral, long-held resentments and painful secrets come out into the open.

STILL HERE is a short film that depicts Omar's journey from trauma toward healing. It is inspired by the clients and work of the Center for Victims...

After moving to a small mountain community, a troubled writer entangles himself in a new neighbor's abusive family situation.

Faced with the trauma of a brutal sexual assault, young chemistry prodigy Sarah Mathis, grows desperate to expedite her healing process and agrees to...

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares.

Miguel comes back to his country home with his wife after running away from the war, however, the memories of the conflict and his remorse for...

Violet, a piano player with rising anxiety and insomnia, finds herself struggling to distinguish her vivid dreams from reality.

An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...

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...

A hand-drawn animation about a teen boy who must save his younger self from the hideous monster that is his past trauma.

On a lonely dirt road, a car gives up the ghost. Further desperate attempts to start it also fail. After several days, the car becomes a prison for...

The story of a young Kurdish man who tries to remember his past traumatic experiences. A young migrant struggles to remember the memories of...

The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides...

Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved...

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

A fine distinctness of manhood come from the aftermath of a rape victim's life.

Frontline investigates the violence, depression, and stress exhibited by a platoon of Iraq War veterans whose members who have committed murder,...

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing...