Trauma Movies

A disturbed twenty something grapples with the weight of his past through a series of visits from an all knowing "psychologist".

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

Alex works for the Dutch Railways (NS) and suffers from severe PTSD, having witnessed 36 suicides on the railway. Fimme is a former drug addict and...

A young man recently released from prison attempts to rebuild his life after the death of his mother.

After losing her parents in a car accident, Marina develops a disturbing condition: she is unable to blink. What begins as a seemingly harmless...

A young trainee with aspirations to become a “pilot”, a form of enhanced human, takes one last evaluation before deciding to return home,...

Huiju learned of her biopsy test results, but lied to her mum about them. Feeling guilty about the lie, she embarks on her journey to find cancer...

When she has the chance to hold her former abuser accountable for his crimes, a traumatized young woman must confront her buried trauma to reclaim...

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...

A young track star is derailed from his social hopes after constant isolation and harassment from his new teammates. After enduring a devastating bus...

The story follows Hermia Summerdream, a young woman plagued by a recurring dream of a forest she’s never visited and voices that echo in...

Shot on a single roll of Super 8mm film, with no editing or retakes, RUSSIA follows a poor young man from the Egyptian countryside as he confronts a...

An adolescent girl loses her mother and is left to live with her distant family members. She discovers her aunt is keeping her from the last letter...

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 day at school turns volatile when a traumatized student and a new inner-city teacher inadvertently go head to head.

A teenage girl is forced to upend her life after accidentally getting pregnant.