Movies: Trauma

Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved trauma. This empowering documentary dares us to think beyond mainstream medicine and embrace Indigen...

Victim of collateral damage to the Marawi Siege, Ahmad, a 17-year-old boy, is forced to leave his hometown and finds himself relocated to another city, under the care of his aunt. With past horrors and trauma, Ahmad is left struggling as he adjusts t...

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A boy begins to learn the truth about his sheltered life....

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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 ...

'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 childhood village, his sense of belonging and identity will be questioned by all within. Following a festiv...

A young trainee with aspirations to become a “pilot”, a form of enhanced human, takes one last evaluation before deciding to return home, but the interview untangles as she is forced to come to terms with a traumatic incident that occurred a year pri...

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Three lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets....

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This film is a collection of my experiences more than it being a visual poetry, my trauma, how i cope and my journey....

The animal experience of New Year's Eve fireworks is loud and clear, even without commentary. The increasing anxiety among animals as seen through the eyes of dogs sporting GoPro cameras....

A young woman navigates her relationships at a pivotal point in her life....

After many years, a young girl revisits her childhood home - with consequences....

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

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

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 disturbing and grotesque as fairy tale narratives and foods are transformed into tableaus of abuse and viola...

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....