Trauma Movies

'Haftasonu' tells the story of Hasan, who travels to Cyprus after many years following the death of his father. As he spends a weekend in his...

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.

A troubled young man comes to terms with a recent traumatic event that has sent him spiraling out of control.

A short fil that follows a body subjected to institutional and diffuse forms of power: medicalization, psychiatric labeling, regimes of sexuality,...

Nat's life forever changed when he received an email that someone had been urinating in the hallway of his dorm...

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...

When a troubled teen hits rock bottom, a drug induced trip forces him to face the one thing he's been trying to escape.

Gabi is undermined when her only friend gets attention from the boy who assaulted her in the past. As night falls on Tel Aviv, the friendship is...

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.

Vincent, a veteran who recently returned home from war, must deal with the onslaught of PTSD while simultaneously coping with the news that his...

On the brink of his wedding, Ethan returns to his birth mother’s home, only to face an uninvited guest whose ties to his past refuse to stay...

At 3 a.m., a woman haunted by trauma and her partner, trapped between love and guilt, face each other in a devastating conversation about love,...

A young African boy with a haunting backstory starts school in Ireland and quickly finds out exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best...

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....

A young painter caught in the vicious cycle of creativity must overcome her innermost turmoil.

Louka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village,...

Lonely teen Nate, shaken by the events of his past, becomes nervous on his first day at university. Within the walls of the school lie his darkest...

A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too...

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

In a world torn apart, silence speaks louder than words. A fleeting moment of birth challenges the noise of war.