repressed trauma

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.

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.

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.

Face to Face

Mon, 05 Apr 1976

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.

I Watched Her Grow

Sun, 23 Jun 2024

Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizing that they may not have to face their uncertain futures alone.

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.

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Mon, 22 Jan 1945

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

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.

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.

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.

Firefly

Sat, 07 Sep 2024

A pyromaniac wrestles with his abusive upbringing as he becomes consumed by a formative childhood memory of fireflies.

Kalkidane, le serment d'une adoptée

Sat, 12 Nov 2022

Camila Decide Matar

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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.

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.

Hunger! Or: Foggy Recollections from the Childhood of Adam Veneer (as mediated by Dr. Tanya Connoway, PsyD)

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

When closeted 16-year-old Adam Veneer us forbidden to ear a cake by his fitness-freak hyper-masculine father, he decides to steal a piece in the middle of the night -- inadvertently discovering a secret about his father that will change their relationship forever.

Hundred Acre Wood

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After a tragedy, a lost boy navigates a mystical forest where he comes face to face with is own fears and trauma.

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A young man looks back at his past as he gets ready to leave his childhood apartment.