Childhood Trauma Movies

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...

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

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

A woman tells us the feelings of her childhood, through an atmospheric journey to her past, where we relive that traumatic moment: her father's abuse.

Upon suddenly learning of her imminent death, Jacqueline von Kaenel begins to search for the key to her life. Unsparingly, she looks back and discover...

The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: Didn't her grand...

A man who was abused as a child by his community returns there to take revenge.

A young woman must make the choice whether to allow her abusive father back into her life.

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when she was just 14. As her story unfolds, we see a gro...

At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How i...

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

Its not about secrets, is hiding them.

A popular live streamer gets invited to a podcast where the questions begin to blur the line between reality and his traumatic past.

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...

While hooking up at a party, two high schoolers unearth a dark secret leading to an unexpected catharsis.

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

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 wrong...