Trauma Movies

Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved...

Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom...

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...

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

An eccentric psychologist has limited time to experiment with a group of artists, applying unconventional methods to cure their fears, while she...

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

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.

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

Many years ago, in a nearly deserted town at the foot of a mountain, lives Agostino with his wife Nina and his son Giovanni. The mountain rises up...

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...

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...

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 traumatic injury and disability, the filmmaker is also the subject, trying to find his way out of a coma like state. Searching for answers, he...

Ava is a child with a limitless imagination. She is a city kid who loves to play in her bedroom and letting herself get carried by her vivid dreams....

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...

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

A young woman confronts the trauma she kept quiet to protect everyone but herself.