Trauma Movies

After waking alone in a dark forest with no memory of how she got there, a young woman follows a mysterious lantern while being haunted by whispers...

The nightmare-plagued protagonist attempts to use lucid dreaming to break free from a surreal cycle.

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

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing...

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

With the loss of her mother imminent, a young woman realises that she must comfort another with similar traumas.

A film inspired by a visual representation of trauma and the journey towards healing. It delves into the symbolic language of the cosmos and the...

Trapped in recurring dreams of her own death, a young woman must confront the buried memory of her father’s suicide in order to finally wake...

A fine distinctness of manhood come from the aftermath of a rape victim's life.

Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and...

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

SEANS follows a psychology professor whose lectures on trauma, paranoia, dissociation, and the subconscious slowly begin to mirror his own fractured...

This film is a collection of my experiences more than it being a visual poetry, my trauma, how i cope and my journey.

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

Two unlikely friends come together in the face of bullying and navigate through grief and trauma in a world where memories are sentient.

Lonely teen Nate, shaken by the events of his past, becomes nervous on his first day at university. Within the walls of the school lie his darkest...

Mel Schwartz escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he'd remember for the rest of his life... until Mel lost his memory to Alzheimer's....