Trauma Movies

A poignant exploration of one man’s journey to break the violent chains of intergenerational trauma.

A psychologist who, upon receiving patients suffering from mental illness, is reminded of their own past traumatic memories and decides to consult...

Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia...

Amid the urban forest of Porto Velho, we follow a night of thought streams experienced by Pilar, a young woman who survives by writing for funeral...

An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition

High School senior Luke Harris dreams of just one thing... pro surfing. But Luke's parents have other ideas: pick a college and grow up! When Luke...

A car crash is replayed as a victim's narration shifts from disbelief to pain. Colourization and motion-controlled footage suggest the feeling of...

A man's past trauma resurfaces due to the disturbance caused by a young child.

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

HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to...

When college student Amara Graye begins receiving cryptic threats, what starts as targeted harassment spirals into a disturbing psychological...

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....

Cleo has amnesia. It's Saturday and she has to balance between preparing her romantic getaway with Gaetan and the endless video calls with her...

A short fil that follows a body subjected to institutional and diffuse forms of power: medicalization, psychiatric labeling, regimes of sexuality,...

An estranged mother arrives at the silent retreat that her daughter is attending. When the two women engage in an unusual - and fantastical - power...

On the brink of his wedding, Ethan returns to his birth mother’s home, only to face an uninvited guest whose ties to his past refuse to stay...

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

His girlfriend's death, sends young Benjamin on a downward spiral, only made worse by the emotionally unavailable men in his life.

Incapable of facing the loss of Pedro, Lucas and Mari dive in past memories. Remembering of happy moments, they discover that pain can, in the end,...

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