Trauma Movies

A mother and her three children try to live peacefully despite the presence of a menacing, unpredictable and irrational father.

A troubled nanny teaches a bullied ten-year-old that freedom to move forward is made possible by shedding the ugly skin of our past.

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with Clara. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and...

A young man processes the aftermath of the obscene relationship between him and an older man.

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...

Lonely teen Nate, shaken by the events of his past, becomes nervous on his first day at university. Within the walls of the school lie his darkest...

Vincent, a veteran who recently returned home from war, must deal with the onslaught of PTSD while simultaneously coping with the news that his...

A young writer finds herself promoting her new book in a televised interview, but things are not what they seem when the interviewer starts to...

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

40-year-old Valdemar is looking after his elderly father Rolf in the aftermath of his mothers passing. One night somewhere in northern Sweden in...

After suffering a loss of someone close to her, Joy moves to a new state and must encounter new people, new experiences, and a love triangle. When...

Single mother Sengul lives with her only daughter Derya, who decides to leave home for good. Sengul outraged by her daughter’s decision unfolds...

Documentary following six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were held in U.S. internment camps during World War II.

The film tells the bittersweet love life of a group of young men who could not be more different from each other: Ryuji is a teenager passionate...

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence....

Amidst a contentious divorce, a single mother secures an unexpected breakthrough in the film industry to establish financial independence, only to...

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...

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