Trauma Movies

With the loss of her mother imminent, a young woman realises that she must comfort another with similar traumas.

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

In the quiet hum of a café, two strangers cross paths - Kabir, a doctor weighed down by unfinished work and unspoken loneliness, and Vaani, an...

A daughter pushes at the bounds of her relationship with her mother as she unpicks the psychological consequences of the violence she suffered.

Haunted by a childhood tragedy, Aarav is forced onto a relentless path where justice demands blood, silence breeds monsters, and every choice pushes...

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

A daughter returns to her childhood home for a meal, which her mother will only endure if she gets her daughter's severed eyeball in return.

A film that delves into director Jean Carlomusto's family history by trying to find out if the rumors about her grandmother's death -- trying to rid...

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

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

It tells the story of a group of young men who are wounded by the events of the terrible events of their 18 years of life, including being branded as...

A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too...

A young painter caught in the vicious cycle of creativity must overcome her innermost turmoil.

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

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing...

She'll come back, the black turkey

The animal experience of New Year's Eve fireworks is loud and clear, even without commentary. The increasing anxiety among animals as seen through...

At a Halloween party a man's traumatic past is reawakened when he sees someone who looks identical to his former abuser.