Aftersun is a 2022 film directed by Charlotte Wells. Starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, the film has been praised for its realistic, heartbreaking portrayal…
“The Haunting of Hill House,” a television show by Mike Flannigan that is based on the novel by Shirley Jackson, is a masterpiece of psychological…
Manchester By The Sea is one of the most realistic portrayals of grief and trauma in film. Released in 2016, the film focuses on Lee…
In a movie recently released on Netflix, they dive into the world of the night. They did so by personifying darkness (the Dark) and his…
Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, Trauma Report writer Azin Dastpak interviews Emma Goude, an award winning filmmaker and author of…
The movie “Words on Bathroom Walls”, released in 2020, follows Adam Petrazelli as he balances high school and the challenges of his mental health diagnosis….
Our minds work in incredible ways to protect us from the negative experiences that occur throughout our lives. Those diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID)…
Leah Warshawski is a film maker where she has worked on TV shows like “Lost” and “Hawaii”. During these projects is when she learned from…
In “Living with Social Anxiety”, filmmaker Kat Napiorkowska shows what it is like to have social anxiety. She describes social anxiety as “self-consciousness on steroids”…
Anatomy of Violence, a film directed by Deepa Mehta, takes viewers on an emotional journey, illustrating how we create perpetrators of violence against women. Mehta…
“Between You and Me,” a documentary by director Chase Joynt, examines what it feels like to discover a family member has done a terrible thing….
In 2013, filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris and film scholar Marsha Kinder, along with dozens of collaborators, unveiled the Interacting with Autism website. The website is…
A Minor Leap Down, an Iranian film featured at international film festivals in Berlin and Toronto, illustrates the struggle of a 30-year-old Iranian woman named…
The documentary film ‘Hot Girls Wanted’, produced by Rashida Jones and released in the spring of 2015, follows several young women living in a North…
Directed by Dani Fray of the York University Department of Theatre, Film, and Television, “OCD” is a short fillm that follows the average morning of…
Filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt’s short film Everything will be OK captures the experiences of Bill as he starts to experience a mental breakdown. Despite small comedic…
An elderly gentleman attempts to retrieve forgotten memories while battling the progression and regression of the cycles of life. — A week prior to his…
“Helen Hunt was nominated for an Oscar this year?” a man asked his companion as the bus jostled passengers side-to-side. “Yeah, she played some sex…
