Trauma Movies

Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken...

An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...

A young woman confronts her trauma while on a date in a "Dating in the Dark"-format.

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

Lou (29) is a present-day nomad. Forever in search of the ultimate kind of freedom, she’s long ago blocked out what it is she is actually...

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...

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence....

The depressed Cayden is being haunted by a sinister entity. This entity is troubling him in his daily routine: during his economy lectures, walking...

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

'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...

A young trainee with aspirations to become a “pilot”, a form of enhanced human, takes one last evaluation before deciding to return home,...

If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war...

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...

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

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

On a lonely dirt road, a car gives up the ghost. Further desperate attempts to start it also fail. After several days, the car becomes a prison for...

Alone in the dark, Freya encounters a terrifying presence, but what did she see? and who's going to believe her?

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...