Movies: Trauma

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose p...

Triggered by a paparazza's "photomugging" assault and then with that same paparazza as her guide, a young actress descends into the caverns of her own mind to retrieve the shrouded parts of herself that she had lost....

a lone survivor of a travelling expedition tries to outrun his past, but that may not be the only thing catching up to him.....

Rabah is forced to take over custody of his son Cédrick. The boy has been mute since losing his mother. Despite the financial strain caused by his immigrant status and undeterred by his fraught relationship with his son, Rabah will manage to rebuild ...

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

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 triggers a traumatic memory that will reunite her with whom she really is, even if it means loosing ...

At a Halloween party a man's traumatic past is reawakened when he sees someone who looks identical to his former abuser....

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A boy faces his past when he remembers that time he tried to drink his drink and it didn't go the way he had suspected....

Psychological Horror short film directed by Elena Coletta....

Having learned that she has a terminal illness, a woman takes a final vacation only to discover a dreamlike triptych of fear, trauma and murder....

Violet, a piano player with rising anxiety and insomnia, finds herself struggling to distinguish her vivid dreams from reality....

A boy begins to learn the truth about his sheltered life....

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Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must first confront her trauma before it consumes her....

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

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 care of by his older sister as he struggles to process his trauma....

Thirty years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), a filmmaker seeks to explore the trauma inflicted by the war on her family. Reverberations traces the history and politics of a nation in disarray in an intimate mother-daughter portra...

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence. She shares the ways in which the tragic demise of her father and mother have affected her and shaped w...

"It's been 25 years and there is so little I remember. I can not remember the police investigation and I can not remember the trial. I have never talked to my parents about the rape, but it is always there anyway. " Dare Remember is an exceptionally...