Childhood Trauma Movies

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

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance...

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...

Unhappy with his unstimulating home life, 9-year-old Daniel yearns to be abducted by aliens. He sneaks out of his house to relive the kind of...

Pratibimb: A reflection, is the portrait of a woman's journey from a young girl coming to terms with her changing body to a grown woman facing the...

5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him...

This world is not made for fairy-tale adventures. Viri, a 12-year-old, realises this as she embarks on a solo stroll during a vacation with her...

After a brief encounter with another boy at age 11, Ari Wallenmeier is forced to undergo Conversion Therapy. Now 35 years old and “fixed", Ari...

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

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

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

THE FOUL TRUTH charts the story of a young teenager - Thoithoiba (played by Priyakanta Laishram), who is a survivor of male sexual assault. The story...

A young girl retraces her relationship with her mother while they bake a pie together. Until she starts to remember what she seemed to have forgotten.

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

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

In the aftermath of war, an extraordinary professor brings hope to children haunted by trauma-induced nightmares.

Trapped in their own thoughts, a young person whose life and identity have always been shaped by others must confront their traumas to finally become...

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...