Trauma Movies

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...

HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to...

After Kream wakes up from a gunshot induced coma, he vows to change his violent ways. But when he returns home to his old neighborhood, his friends...

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.

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.

When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.

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The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides...

When an aspiring singer receives an opportunity to perform from her former abuser, she’s forced to risk her current relationship for the...

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

A young painter caught in the vicious cycle of creativity must overcome her innermost turmoil.

Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom...

A mother and her three children try to live peacefully despite the presence of a menacing, unpredictable and irrational father.

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...

A short fil that follows a body subjected to institutional and diffuse forms of power: medicalization, psychiatric labeling, regimes of sexuality,...

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