Childhood Trauma Movies

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...

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

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

Soft Core Hard Wear is an album from Spencer Radcliffe’s Blithe Field. A suite of eighteen moments made from synthesizer, sampler, and cassette...

Seven people gather in a therapy room to face their shared, debilitating fear of clowns. As they share their traumas, they desperately try to find a...

Holotropic Breathwork is arguably one of the most powerful and effective non-pharmacological methods of psychotherapy and self-exploration. It...

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

A documentary that explores the reality of the LGBTQIA+ community through the perspective of those who, excluded from their families of origin, have...

Amaris lives inside a fractured inner world where memory and identity blurs together. She awakens chained within a cage. Her mind rebuilds the past...

In this short documentary film, Unsilenced Movement founder Shelby Smith reveals the dark underbelly of voiding cystourethrograms (VCUGs), the "gold...

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

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

Assaf, a cynical boy frustrated by the death of his older brother Uri in Lebanon, refuses to join his family for the Memorial Day ceremony. Out of...

Heta ysyryre gueteri jahasata. Translating from guaraní: Many ways to go! Olga inhabits this world. Just like every day, Olga gets up to have...

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

A young man, severely addicted to drugs due to childhood abuse, has his life impacted even further after a meeting with his dealer goes horribly...

A female college student went missing. The police questioned her two closest relations about the girl's whereabouts.

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

A short amateur stop-motion animation about self-harm. Watch on YouTube: ito can't sleep