Although the trend is to bemoan that strong, idiosyncratic women have historically been negatively labeled, either morally or psychiatrically, current filmmakers continue this trend. In the modern era ...

Tamara Stepanyan spent time with women who are taking courses at the Maison des Femmes in a suburb of Paris to work through the experience of rape, mutilation, or other forms of violence. By Georg ...

Recently, Netflix aired an iconic film from 1975, a Best Picture winner, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This film represents one of the best attempts of Hollywood to explain psychological trauma.

The Rockford Public Library and Winnebago County Health Department are teaming up to offer a free film series focused on trauma and building resiliency. The series will feature six films, each ...

There are some good actors' moments in this tale of a young woman dealing with the trauma of a sexual assault. But they don't fully cohere. She emerges from this crime a shell of her former self, and ...

Eeva Mägi's new feature film, featuring a young man just released from 10 years of prison, opens the Critics' Picks lineup of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, but she has more creative projects ...

"Disfluency" begins with an anxious dream sequence where the main character, Jane, enters a college lecture hall as a professor is explaining that “speech is not perfect because we are not perfect." ...

The Siege at Thorn High (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Joko Anwar, written by Joko Anwar, and starring Morgan Oey, Omara N. Esteghlal, and Hana Malasan. The Siege at Thorn High is more than ...

British-Romanian filmmaker Rachel Taparjan likes to quote George Bernard Shaw when talking about her debut feature, “Something Familiar.” The “Pygmalion” playwright said, “If you can’t get rid of the ...