Trauma Movies

A tragic street racing accident kills a wife and her child leaving her husband to pick up the pieces and pursue justice against the boy that killed...

Behind the closed doors of the Copenhagen-based women's shelter, the women and children are slowly recovering after having escaped domestic violence....

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...

On a lonely dirt road, a car gives up the ghost. Further desperate attempts to start it also fail. After several days, the car becomes a prison for...

By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling...

Margarita is found, naked and bloody in a luxurious house and is promptly taken to a mental institute. The doctors and nurses meant to take care of...

Michael is an alcoholic. He abuses his wife, barely tolerating his kid. He enslaved them in paranoia, and through alcoholism delivered them into...

At her mother's rambling behest, Josie enlists best friend and unofficial chauffeur Stanley, to search for clues after her sister, Andrea,...

A married couple survives a traumatic event. But their relationship may not.

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma.

What if we changed viewpoints? "Bullying, our lives after" highlights the suffering of adults who were once bullied pupils. Ten, twenty or thirty...

A nurse and her patient are trying to escape when a violent intruder starts hunting them.

With their mom gone, Clara cares for her younger sister Ruby while starting senior year. Struggling to give love and support, the pressure builds...

After her sister leaves home, Tari fights to protect her mother from her father's abuse and joins a support group where she meets a new lifelong...

Rafaela and Felipe are a couple who experienced racial violence on their wedding day. In an attempt to put it all behind them, they decide to isolate...

Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of...

Peter, a married psychotherapist, and Suzanne, a professional dominatrix, have been engaged in an affair of sensual dominance and submission in an...

Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia...

Fireman Tom Hatcher is at the end of his rope. He saves lives but couldn't save his wife from cancer. Now his daughter faces the same battle. From an...

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in...