Childhood Trauma Movies

A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my...

Blind Spot is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter...

Papa has long promised his daughter Mika that he will take her to the beach during summer vacation, but as a golf caddy he keeps getting called into...

In this raw true story of faith and redemption, college student, Riley, runs from her painful past of abuse and religious hypocrisy. However, God has...

When a 7-year-old son of the well-known businessman is kidnapped, he has no idea what awaits him! It turns out that the mysterious kidnapper does not...

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood brownstone home, where...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian...

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of...

The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction through the use of psychedelic medicines.

"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her...

Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to...

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories...

After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace's struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past....

Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote...

After a brief encounter with another boy at age 11, Ari Wallenmeier is forced to undergo Conversion Therapy. Now 35 years old and “fixed", Ari...

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death...

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

In this quiet, naturalistic dramatic short, six-year old Sarah grapples with understanding mortality after the sudden death of her older brother,...