Childhood Trauma Movies

"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 rest...

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

It seems innocent enough. Struggling young artist Daniel King is invited by his childhood friend Natasha...

The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for killin...

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

The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far a...

A short film based on a real interview with a kid survived the 2006 war on Lebanon.

Unable to understand why parenting seems like a constant uphill battle, an emotionally exhausted mother who can’t connect with her two young sons cour...

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 car...

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

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

Alice Miller (1923-2010) psychologist and researcher, became world famous for her books about child abuse and its consequences. But how was it like to...

THE FOUL TRUTH charts the story of a young teenager - Thoithoiba (played by Priyakanta Laishram),who is a survivor of male sexual assault. The story...

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

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares.

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

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