intergenerational trauma

27 movies and shows

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

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 could have led in other universes.

Throat Song

Thu, 01 Sep 2011

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 other victims of violence and finds her voice.

House

Fri, 06 Dec 1985

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

Children of the Camps

Mon, 26 Apr 1999

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

Time Keeps Marching On

Fri, 01 Aug 2025

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

My Father, Nour and I

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

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 to let go of the past and embrace a Dutch future?

An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul and Paulette’s chance encounter on a Parisian boulevard sparks an unusual friendship that grows around a dark game; reenacting scenes of notorious crimes from bygone eras at the sites they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the more recent past it becomes more uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding a surprising joy in the darker corners of humanity.

The Call

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

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

The Feeling of Being Close to You

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk openly for the first time about the intergenerational trauma and abuse within their lives. Present day phone conversations are juxtaposed with archival VHS footage, creating a connection between the past and a re-write for the future.

Relative

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

A filmmaker unearths a pervasive history of multigenerational trauma in her Italian-American family. As decades of secrets, home movies, and long-avoided conversations surface, a family once bound by tradition forges a new path forward.

Resilience

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

Ancestral Beasts

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In the haunting landscape of rural Canada explores the terrifying idea: what if a severe mental health disorder took on a physical form—a creature lurking in the shadows? A Métis woman struggling to rehabilitate her mental health as she escapes a toxic, co-dependent relationship with her sister and retreats to her ancestral home. But her quest for peace is upended when a sinister presence begins to manifest, forcing her to confront intergenerational trauma and fight for her spirit—and the lives of those she loves.

Reverberations

Tue, 08 Mar 2022

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. Reverberations traces the history and politics of a nation in disarray in an intimate mother-daughter portrait that unravels the trauma that defined an era lost to history and a generation’s silence about its long-standing effects.