Abuse Movies

Up to 1970, 4,500 people were lobotomized in Sweden. The majority were women and some were children. The method quickly became a standard in many...

Photographic story of abuse in a couple.

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran.

The film begins as a personal journey of filmmaker, Mary Healey, who was also a Catholic. She films a series of historic events where we meet key...

Louise, ballerina at the Garnier Opera in 1895, rushes home after a show but is stopped by a friend asking for money. Louise knows what to do in...

Journalist and presenter Ellie Flynn brings together a group of 20 young people aged 18-25 for a social experiment, to see if they understand what...

After her parents tragically died in a car crash, Lily is adopted and raised by Jeff, the driver of the other car. Jeff's young wife did not survive...

In a tense trial, a prestigious professor finds himself caught up in a storm of accusations. As hidden truths are uncovered, his life and the...

Between 1924 to 1970, Kinchela Boys Home in Kempsey, New South Wales, saw an estimated 400 to 600 Aboriginal children exposed to routine acts of...

A visualization of an artists abusive relationship between themselves and the camera.

A decade after a scandal tore their church apart, an atheist and Christian unpack the hurt and baggage of their past and how it led them to the...

Through the memories of former scouts, the short film explores the mystical traditions that shaped their experiences, from the magic that captivated...

When a grieving Nigerian immigrant's emotional collapse is misread as misconduct, a single workplace incident sets off a descent, drawing her closer...

A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system, based on the personal trials of Aboriginal...

An unfiltered journey into the most intimate sides of friendship. Teenagers Aruna and Chiara navigate love, betrayal, and their descent into...

A short documentary examining the consequence of time within the fragility of memory, exposing a sense of self, trapped within materiality and...

A former YouTube child creator revisits her time on the wildly popular Seven Awesome Kids network to reveal the rise and fall of the online community...

A struggling actor's trauma is weaponized by a manipulative director and his crew.