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...

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...

Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must...

After many years, a young girl revisits her childhood home - with consequences.

a lone survivor of a travelling expedition tries to outrun his past, but that may not be the only thing catching up to him..

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.

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...

Manon, a young woman who has just left a cult, faces the everyday uses with apprehension. She feels the gap with the people around her, who don't...

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...

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons...

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

"It's been 25 years and there is so little I remember. I can not remember the police investigation and I can not remember the trial. I have never...

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...

This film is a collection of my experiences more than it being a visual poetry, my trauma, how i cope and my journey.

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

A boy begins to learn the truth about his sheltered life.

Rabah is forced to take over custody of his son Cédrick. The boy has been mute since losing his mother. Despite the financial strain caused by...

A short documentary featuring a brief overview of Bill Gothard's ministries, and some of the consequences for his followers.