Movies: Trauma

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose p...

If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war in an abandoned school, protected from the horrifying whistling of the wind. When one of them disappea...

Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must first confront her trauma before it consumes her....

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After many years, a young girl revisits her childhood home - with consequences....

a lone survivor of a travelling expedition tries to outrun his past, but that may not be the only thing catching up to him.....

Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be....

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 disturbing and grotesque as fairy tale narratives and foods are transformed into tableaus of abuse and viola...

Manon, a young woman who has just left a cult, faces the everyday uses with apprehension. She feels the gap with the people around her, who don't know how to react to her past. Despite a desire to move forward and the support of those around her, the...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken care of by his older sister as he struggles to process his trauma....

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons from their past to inhabit the house....

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

"It's been 25 years and there is so little I remember. I can not remember the police investigation and I can not remember the trial. I have never talked to my parents about the rape, but it is always there anyway. " Dare Remember is an exceptionally...

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 running from. At home everywhere and nowhere. Living a now-now life. Click and - next, please. Until she meets A...

This film is a collection of my experiences more than it being a visual poetry, my trauma, how i cope and my journey....

Violet, a piano player with rising anxiety and insomnia, finds herself struggling to distinguish her vivid dreams from reality....

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A boy begins to learn the truth about his sheltered life....

Rabah is forced to take over custody of his son Cédrick. The boy has been mute since losing his mother. Despite the financial strain caused by his immigrant status and undeterred by his fraught relationship with his son, Rabah will manage to rebuild ...

A short documentary featuring a brief overview of Bill Gothard's ministries, and some of the consequences for his followers....