Childhood Trauma Movies

Harley, a twenty-year-old college student, visits her doctor to share how she's been feeling off lately. A recent culmination of events has caused...

A troubled young adult seduces and blackmails unsuspecting strangers on a dating site.

Alice Miller (1923-2010) psychologist and researcher, became world famous for her books about child abuse and its consequences. But how was it like...

Its not about secrets, is hiding them.

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...

A story of a fragmented friendship finding new ground, director Daniel Stine’s feature film debut Virginia Minnesota begins with a young woman...

A short film by Ana Cristina Barragán.

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...

A little cat witnesses the passing of his family.

Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the...

Amelia falls in love with Dan, but she is fighting to escape a past that threatens to repeat itself. Can Amelia’s new relationship survive the...

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

A young woman travels to the Teddy Bear Motel after seeing it in her dreams. Between the allure of the motel’s portal into childhood and the...

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...

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

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...

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