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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In the twilight of her years, an elderly mother plots to escape from her home, cleverly trying to outwit a hired housemaid her child placed there to...

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...

In a country ravaged by generational trauma, a psychiatrist trains grandmothers to treat depression within their communities.

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

The untold story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third...

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

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