Childhood Trauma Movies

At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How...

When two sisters return to their childhood home after their elderly parents untimely death, they are forced to confront the disturbing truths hidden...

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...

Two young siblings are happily at play in their blanket fort, until an ominous shadow with a life of its own threatens their safe haven. As they hunt...

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

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

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...

Years after the cameras stopped rolling, a former child actor begins the difficult work of confronting what happened behind them.

After a relapse, 39-year-old Amaro returns to his mother’s home, where their opposing relationships with food expose a cycle of love, control,...

A film shoot is thrown into disarray when six-year-old Emily becomes distressed during an emotionally charged scene. As tensions rise between cast...

"The Monsters in My Home" focuses on the work Carme Artero, a foster mother from Majorca, Spain, who has devoted her time to setting up a foundation...

While hooking up at a party, two high schoolers unearth a dark secret leading to an unexpected catharsis.

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...

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

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...

A daughter returns to her childhood home for a meal, which her mother will only endure if she gets her daughter's severed eyeball in return.

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...

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...