Intergenerational Trauma Movies

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she...

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives...

A divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.

A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left...

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk...

Thirty years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), a filmmaker seeks to explore the trauma inflicted by the war on her family....

Aiyra left her small hometown to work in the big city. Conceição, her mother, left many years ago, but she returned.

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an...

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s...

A young man grapples with the weight of ancestral traditions and expectations, as he endures both physical and emotional trials imposed by his...

In the twilight of her years, an elderly mother plots to escape from her home, cleverly trying to outwit a hired housemaid her child placed there to...

A single mother is forced to confront her dark past, while raising her young Autistic son. Shot and Set in Glasgow during the pandemic. The director...

In the haunting landscape of rural Canada explores the terrifying idea: what if a severe mental health disorder took on a physical form—a...

A collage film documenting dissociation, sexual assault, and all the times I didn't have words for myself.

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

The untold story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third...

Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected...

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...