Intergenerational Trauma Movies

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she...

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s...

Roger Cobb, a divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son, inherits an old mansion home to malevolent...

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and...

In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an...

In the haunting landscape of rural Canada explores the terrifying idea: what if a severe mental health disorder took on a physical form—a...

A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.

Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected...

Aiyra left her small hometown to work in the big city. Conceição, her mother, left many years ago, but she returned.

Documentary following six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were held in U.S. internment camps during World War II.

After twenty years, Wiam Al Zabari starts a conversation with his father. Why did they flee from Iraq? Why was that never discussed? Will he be able...

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk...

A collage film documenting dissociation, sexual assault, and all the times I didn't have words for myself.

A motorcycle-riding, pill-popping school psychologist must come to terms with her own trauma in order to help a seven-year-old girl exhibiting...

A young man grapples with the weight of ancestral traditions and expectations, as he endures both physical and emotional trials imposed by his...

An undocumented immigrant explores his and his family's immigration trauma while grasping hope through a voicemail.

Thirty years after the end of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1991), a filmmaker seeks to explore the trauma inflicted by the war on her family....

Resilience is dedicated to those whose lives have been fragmented by intergenerational trauma, but who wish to break the cycle.