Childhood Trauma Movies

A child runs into the woods in an attempt to escape Evil.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 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.

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...

In this short documentary film, Unsilenced Movement founder Shelby Smith reveals the dark underbelly of voiding cystourethrograms (VCUGs), the "gold...

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

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...

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...