Childhood Trauma Movies

What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A...

A short film about a man searching to reconcile his faith and his sexuality.

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...

A story of a fragmented friendship finding new ground, director Daniel Stine’s feature film debut Virginia Minnesota begins with a young woman...

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when she was just 14. As her story unfolds, we...

A troubled young adult seduces and blackmails unsuspecting strangers on a dating site.

This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven...

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

A young woman must make the choice whether to allow her abusive father back into her life.

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...

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and...

A child runs into the woods in an attempt to escape Evil.

Its not about secrets, is hiding them.

A virgin gets visited by the Devil.

Two sisters try to survive the war by isolating themselves inside the house after their parents have disappeared. Through strange messages and clues,...

An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual assault.

Carter, afflicted all his life by a repressed childhood trauma, begins to break through new barriers in his identity and tries to escape his...