Trauma Movies

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...

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 African boy with a haunting backstory starts school in Ireland and quickly finds out exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best...

Dealing with the aftermath of a botched robbery, three kids are forced to face the traumas of their lifestyle.

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

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

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...

The addiction to the unique sensation of the sun on the skin.

A man vents about his unraveling life to his best friend, unaware that the truth of their conversation extends far beyond his own perspective.

A young girl tries to overcome her fear of driving following a traumatic car accident.

After some personal trauma, Wilson Walmsley is invited to work as a substitute teacher in a suburban public high school. He finds lack of authority...

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

Many years ago, in a nearly deserted town at the foot of a mountain, lives Agostino with his wife Nina and his son Giovanni. The mountain rises up...

Between psychosis, delusions of persecution and trauma, A finds himself at an interface between past and present after a stay in hospital. What is...

Haunted by his past and burdened by his choices, The Caricature embarks on a final journey of reckoning. With the weight of his past betrayal still...

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