Trauma Movies

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

Clare has only her dog to keep her company. Her life isn't going so well. This morning, it's about to get much worse.

She'll come back, the black turkey

A final-year university student moves into a boarding house run by a caring yet possessive landlady. When strange occurrences begin to disrupt her...

Trapped in recurring dreams of her own death, a young woman must confront the buried memory of her father’s suicide in order to finally wake...

Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

A group of teens visiting an Airbnb a year after the death of their friend are shocked when they find what they've been suppressing in the nearby...

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

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

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...

Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and...

This film is like a person standing naked in the middle of a square, covered in wounds, holding up a sign that says “Free Hug.” Many...

Two unlikely friends come together in the face of bullying and navigate through grief and trauma in a world where memories are sentient.

The nightmare-plagued protagonist attempts to use lucid dreaming to break free from a surreal cycle.

A film inspired by a visual representation of trauma and the journey towards healing. It delves into the symbolic language of the cosmos and the...