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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

"I Am the Warrior: A Residential School Story" depicts the struggling relationships between a mother and daughter fox after the mother has suffered...

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

A young woman Indigenous is preparing to leave her community. This departure makes her reflect on her identity. As she moves towards adulthood, she...