Intergenerational Trauma Movies

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

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 small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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