Childhood Trauma Movies

In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao...

During a quiet moment of closeness, a young couple’s playful banter takes a profound and sobering turn when a simple question about the past...

Kira finds it difficult to wake up, as sleep paralysis and psychological trauma from her childhood keep her in an endless cycle of nightmares.

Filmmaker Juliet Belisario revisits her childhood, interweaving 16mm vignettes and her old child services documents, uncovering truths she...

Sakiran (11), left behind by his parents, slips out of the house and meets a friend who takes him to a PS2 rental. Yet the joy of playing can’t...

Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire...

Original work from director Irie Yu of Memoirs of a Murder and the "8000 MILES: SR Saitama's Rapper" series. Set in a provincial city, the story...

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody...

Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to...

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...

On a summer morning, Chichou, a six-year-old girl, invite us to discover what her daily life is made of. Perhaps at the cost of what childhood should...

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

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...

On a night defined by desperation, a young addict must confront his deepest traumas when a ruthless decision pushes him to the edge of his own...

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.

After losing her job, Charlie is forced to return to her childhood home. Tensions rise as long since disposed of memories are brought once again to...

What if your father murdered your mother? Maeve, Roser, and sisters Perla and Aurora each lost their mother, their father, and their safe home in a...

This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven...

In the apparent stillness of a solitary lake, the memories of two brothers resurface. With them a stone, buried for twenty years, too heavy to be...

When Connor is unexpectedly told he needs to find another place to stay, he's thrust into the streets of Darwin with no safety net. A chance...