Trauma Movies

Dealing with the aftermath of a botched robbery, three kids are forced to face the traumas of their lifestyle.

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.

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

A depressed man purchases a goblin to heal his trauma and depression, and is forced to face himself.

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,...

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 boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance.

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing...

An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition

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...

A mother and daughter rent a house for a getaway after suffering a sudden and tragic loss, little do they know the house is run by a secret cult.

After the death of his mother, Carlos returns to his childhood home. During a long night, Carlos is confronted with the many neighbors of his...

The story follows Hermia Summerdream, a young woman plagued by a recurring dream of a forest she’s never visited and voices that echo in...

A woman grapples with the traumatic childhood memory of losing one of her baby teeth.

A man is haunted by a ghost that stalks his nightmares.... until waking up proves to be only the beginning of his troubles.

The addiction to the unique sensation of the sun on the skin.

Between psychosis, delusions of persecution and trauma, A finds himself at an interface between past and present after a stay in hospital. What is...

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's....