Movies: Trauma

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 begins to interview strangers also experiencing extreme life circumstances....

A young writer finds herself promoting her new book in a televised interview, but things are not what they seem when the interviewer starts to challenge her....

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

Jamie and Elise both try to cope with the traumatic loss of Danny. For the both of them, reality and fantasy is a very fine line. They aren’t just grieving the person who is no longer physically with them, but also mourn the pieces of themselves and ...

The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides to make a film about the psychotherapeutic treatment with LSD of a former concentration camp prisoner ...

A daughter pushes at the bounds of her relationship with her mother as she unpicks the psychological consequences of the violence she suffered....

Black Feeling is an atmospheric short film that ties psychological thriller with supernatural realism to examine identity, emotional contagion, and queer intimacy at its most volatile. The story follows Kamsi, a young woman who isn’t like other peop...

a lone survivor of a travelling expedition tries to outrun his past, but that may not be the only thing catching up to him.....

After returning from her husband's requiem mass, Clarice gets into an argument with her daughter Andrea about the family's dark past....

A poignant exploration of one man’s journey to break the violent chains of intergenerational trauma....

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After a rape, fifteen-year-old Alice, a motocross champion, discovers that she has superpowers. It only remains to be seen how she will use them…...

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A musician's growth beyond a cult....

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down....

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the one-year anniversary of their arrest on the front lines, a death in their community opens old wounds bu...

Haunted by his past and burdened by his choices, The Caricature embarks on a final journey of reckoning. With the weight of his past betrayal still looming over him, he walks a path drenched in blood, regret, and fleeting redemption....

During a cold night, 9-year-old Ana has her room invaded by the Tailorman, an evil spirit who seeks an innocent soul. She is only safe when within her blanket, which the creature cannot trespass. But to protect herself, and her kitten Duchess, Ana mu...

A mysterious young woman will appear in Clément’s solitary life. She will guide him and accompany him to his inner liberation....