Trauma Movies

STILL HERE is a short film that depicts Omar's journey from trauma toward healing. It is inspired by the clients and work of the Center for Victims...

A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Echo and Wild are two urban Indigenous land defenders. On the...

Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be.

Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved...

A fine distinctness of manhood come from the aftermath of a rape victim's life.

A young trainee with aspirations to become a “pilot”, a form of enhanced human, takes one last evaluation before deciding to return home,...

An adolescent girl loses her mother and is left to live with her distant family members. She discovers her aunt is keeping her from the last letter...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

A short documentary featuring a brief overview of Bill Gothard's ministries, and some of the consequences for his followers.

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

On a lonely dirt road, a car gives up the ghost. Further desperate attempts to start it also fail. After several days, the car becomes a prison for...

After finding some videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she herself has left on the Internet. A...

Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue their advance, his wife and small daughters flee...

As Jordan and his teacher's escalating struggle in their high school class leads to his arrest, the pressures they each bear are revealed.

A young woman confronts her trauma while on a date in a "Dating in the Dark"-format.

A young painter caught in the vicious cycle of creativity must overcome her innermost turmoil.