Movies: Trauma

Between psychosis, delusions of persecution and trauma, A finds himself at an interface between past and present after a stay in hospital. What is still reality and what is a fearful manifestation of traumatic encounters? By confronting herself with ...

With his parents away from home, teenager Harry agrees to let old friend Jason stay for the night in his suburban mansion, allowing buried demons from their past to inhabit the house....

A young couple decide to move out of their apartment due to an unforeseen circumstance....

After her sister's suicide, Carey starts experiencing bizarre dreams, leading her to believe there is more to her sibling's death than she thought....

Two ordinary women who accidentally committed a crime wanted to cover up their tracks. However, the internal conflict they faced as women in the eyes of society ultimately prevented them from carrying out their intention....

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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...

Music is Melody's biggest obsession; she can hardly live without it. After meeting this new guy at a record store, Melody's life is flipped upside down. Her love for music begins to fade and she spirals into a depression as she struggles to find a wa...

A hand-drawn animation about a teen boy who must save his younger self from the hideous monster that is his past trauma....

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 foreign....

When an aspiring singer receives an opportunity to perform from her former abuser, she’s forced to risk her current relationship for the performance of a lifetime....

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A psychologist who, upon receiving patients suffering from mental illness, is reminded of their own past traumatic memories and decides to consult another psychologist....

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares....

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

On September 7, 2012, Ashley MacDonald was sexually assaulted. In this powerful first time film, she talks to strangers about what that same day looked like in their own lives. What were they doing? What happened to them? The result is a documentary ...

40-year-old Valdemar is looking after his elderly father Rolf in the aftermath of his mothers passing. One night somewhere in northern Sweden in Rolf's apartment Valdemar is forced to confront his grief as well as his childhood fears....

Violet, a piano player with rising anxiety and insomnia, finds herself struggling to distinguish her vivid dreams from reality....

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This film is like a person standing naked in the middle of a square, covered in wounds, holding up a sign that says “Free Hug.” Many people come to embrace him, and he embraces many in return. Yet this does not mean that those who embrace him are uns...