Movies: Trauma

Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage....

A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war....

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 ignored....

A girl sees her dead father in front of her after taking a bad fall. Her visions intensify and her true feelings about her father surface....

A private chauffeur drives you around, wherever you like, whenever you like, but do you even know who or what drives you?...

After hitting a deer with his car, Tony is haunted by guilt...

When a troubled teen hits rock bottom, a drug induced trip forces him to face the one thing he's been trying to escape....

Between psychosis, delusions of persecution and trauma, A finds himself at an interface between past and present after a stay in hospital. What is still reality and what is a fearful manifestation of traumatic encounters? By confronting herself with ...

Music is Melody's biggest obsession; she can hardly live without it. After meeting this new guy at a record store, Melody's life is flipped upside down. Her love for music begins to fade and she spirals into a depression as she struggles to find a wa...

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widesp...

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged sha...

In her attempt to escape her past, Huiju relocated to the UK over 11 months ago. However, even after moving to a new country, she found that her nightmares from Korea continued to haunt her. Determined to move forward, she made the decision to confro...

A boy begins to learn the truth about his sheltered life....

A teenage girl is forced to upend her life after accidentally getting pregnant....

A married couple survives a traumatic event. But their relationship may not....

A woman plagued with problems tries to solve them with pills but gets a bigger experience than she bargained for. Can one pill make it all go away?...

Five teenagers, Chris, Kai, Nic, Alex and Katherine, explore the Australian wilderness to see if they can capture a ghost that science-fiction nerd Nic has read an article about. The group's teenage antics and increasingly heated arguments are interr...

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music....

A young track star is derailed from his social hopes after constant isolation and harassment from his new teammates. After enduring a devastating bus accident, he and his nemesis must learn to accept one another in order to fully recover....

A poignant exploration of one man’s journey to break the violent chains of intergenerational trauma....