Trauma Movies

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

Hopper, a Vietnam vet riddled with PTSD is taken under the wing of a charismatic undercover CIA agent, Reese, promising him a newly repaired mind....

Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This is the story of 0ne-the bombing of bus 32 in...

A young and outgoing African-American boy living under the skies of 1950s Jim Crow Kentucky finds himself lost when he wakes up in the year 2026,...

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically....

HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to...

After a long exhausting day, a young man returns to his apartment expecting just another ordinary night, only to find himself trapped inside a...

The film tells the bittersweet love life of a group of young men who could not be more different from each other: Ryuji is a teenager passionate...

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...

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection,...

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...

In a remote Turkish village, a timid young man is haunted by his childhood and the mysterious death of his sister. Nightmares and unsettling visions...

A young woman confronts her trauma while on a date in a "Dating in the Dark"-format.

The film discusses the emotional aftermath of disasters, emphasizing the importance of expressing feelings and seeking help. It highlights personal...

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.

A troubled nanny teaches a bullied ten-year-old that freedom to move forward is made possible by shedding the ugly skin of our past.

FALSELY SO-CALLED is an existential story of a mother’s life that documents her descent to her inevitable death as reality literally begins to...

After moving into a new apartment, Angelika begins hearing strange sounds between the walls, leading her to believe that she might be living...

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...