repressed trauma

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Fri, 30 Apr 2010

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Blink Twice

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.

It Ends with Us

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

Total Trust

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling state and lends a voice to those that stand in resilient defiance of such blatant abuse of power.

Jekyll vs. Hyde

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A battle ignites between a kind doctor and his repressed, murderous alter-ego for only one personality to inhabit the body.

Kalkidane, le serment d'une adoptée

Sat, 12 Nov 2022

Joe Finds Grace

Thu, 21 Sep 2017

Simple-minded Joseph Briteman breaks a golden rule of his 'life skills' program when he walks away unsupervised to rescue his long lost baby sister.

Mysterious Skin

Wed, 30 Mar 2005

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Freud: The Secret Passion

Wed, 12 Dec 1962

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Face to Face

Mon, 05 Apr 1976

Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.

How to Be Alone

Sat, 09 Mar 2019

When her husband leaves for a night shift, a woman battles physical manifestations of her repressed fears and desires.

Hundred Acre Wood

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After the disappearance of a friend, a lost boy and his bear navigates a mystical forest where they comes face to face with their own fears and trauma.

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been on stage for over 60 years. For the now 82-year-old, the personal has always been political, and her friendship with Martin Luther King and her pacifism have shaped her commitment. In this biography that opens with her farewell tour, Baez takes stock in an unsparing fashion and confronts sometimes painful memories.

The Rites of Man

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Time-traveling anthropologists document the heartbreak of an aspiring entrepreneur in Los Angeles. In ir/reverent homage to mid-20th century documentary films, this fictional documentary turns a comically “objective” lens on the shadows of trauma lurking behind American masculinity.

Burning Memories

Sat, 23 Jan 2021

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 is it possible to repress an incident for one’s entire life? How did it happen that she made films and wrote books always about children and violence? Alice walks with her accordion through the desert, searching for answers, looking at a phenomenon that affects many women in a similar or related way.

Camera aur room

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This short sequence (or film) is my submission for the imagistic/abstract shot breakdown exercise at Whistling Woods International (film school). As direction students, the objective was to do a shot breakdown and then present a sequence of shots to finally make something that can be distinctly expressed via film and no other art form in terms of its effect.

Floated By

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

A young adult silently drowning in trauma, yearning to let out what’s inside of him, navigates a series of encounters—each revealing fragments of his inner struggle, toxic masculinity, and unspoken vulnerability, as well as the painful dissonance between his desires and his actions.

Camila Decide Matar

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Camila is a bored young woman. She begins to romanticize her life... until she realizes that there is something supernatural in this fantasy.

M/OTHER

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Iren, who went to visit her grandmother with her mother (Lal), finds her grandmother dead at home. Lal is forced to stay at the deceased mother's house with her child (Iren) for a while to host guests and clean the house. Due to the stress of the situation, Iren is unable to speak (selective mutism/temporary mutism). Lal becomes overly protective of her daughter due to her mutism. Her greatest fear is leaving more wounds with her death than she did while alive. Already afraid of leaving permanent marks, Lal cannot remove the stain left on the wooden floor where her mother died and becomes increasingly tense. In an attempt to conceal it, she covers the stain with a cabinet and tries to entertain guests this way. Meanwhile, Iren begins to hear noises coming from under the unrevealed stain. Despite Lal's efforts to protect her daughter, Iren starts to become a part of the family amid these sounds.

Porcelain

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

A woman returns to her childhood home following her father's death, and begins to remember the horrors of her past.