Narrative Feature

A narrative or story is any report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or still or moving images.

Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic and/or formal categories: non-fiction (such as definitively including creative non-fiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction); and fiction proper (such as literature in prose and sometimes poetry, such as short stories, novels, and narrative poems and songs, and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms, games, or live or recorded performances). Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature, theatre, music and song, comics, journalism, film, television and video, radio, gameplay, unstructured recreation, and performance in general, as well as some painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and other visual arts (though several modern art movements refuse the narrative in favor of the abstract and conceptual), as long as a sequence of events is presented. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, “to tell”, which is derived from the adjective gnarus, “knowing” or “skilled”.

Oral storytelling is perhaps[according to whom?] the earliest method for sharing narratives. During most people’s childhoods, narratives are used to guide them on proper behavior, cultural history, formation of a communal identity, and values, as especially studied in anthropology today among traditional indigenous peoples. Narratives may also be nested within other narratives, such as narratives told by an unreliable narrator (a character) typically found in noir fiction genre. An important part of narration is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.

Along with exposition, argumentation, and description, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to the reader.

U.S. and foreign films

The English film title, original title, country of origin and production year are listed. Foreign-language films are subtitled in English.

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The Hunters Club

Kit McDee | Australia | 2016 | 1 h 45 m 30 s Facebook | Twitter | Website Mike, an easygoing skate guy and martial artist, is thrust into a hidden world of murder and assassination after running into his best friend Ed, 10 years after thinking he was Killed In Action. In order to keep Mike alive,… Read more »

The Last Beautiful Girl

James Christopher | United States | 2015 | 1 h 27 m Facebook | Twitter Jason falls in love with Jules.  And he falls hard. But when things start to fall apart, Jason finds letting go to be easier said than done. Cast Derek Babb Shelby Cullinan Morgan Floyd Jae McCain Mike Donis

Turning Pages

Lamar Holley | United States | 2016 | 1 h 12 m 8 s The only clues to finding his new friend are hidden in the journal she left behind. Cast Powell Munro-Holzner Maya Choate

Sound of Silence

Dr.Biju | India | 2017 | 01:27:00 Hindi, Tibetan with English Subtitles Set in a beautiful Himalayan valley, it’s a journey of a neglected and abandoned mute boy, who loses his mother at birth and is furiously neglected by his father. When his father goes behind bars, the boy stares at a lonely and deserted… Read more »

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Joe Finds Grace

Anthony Harrison | Canada | 2017 | 1:23:00 Facebook A simple man with a twisted mind and body breaks the golden rule of his ‘life skills’ program when he goes on an unsupervised mission to find his long lost baby sister. Cast Anthony Harrison C. Ernst Harth Ellie Harvie Chilton Crane Dmitry Chepovetsky Bruce Dawson… Read more »

I Am Still Here

Mischa Marcus | United States | 2016 | 01:43:21 Facebook | Twitter I AM STILL HERE is the story of 10-year old Layla, who was stolen from her family and thrown into America’s child sex industry. Stories of courage drawn from interviews with trafficking survivors are the foundation for the fictionalized account of Layla’s journey… Read more »

2 Girls

Jeo Baby | India | 2016 | 1:12:28 Malayalam with English Subtitles The movie ‘2 Penkuttikal’(2 girls) discuss about the problems faced by women in our society. This movie portraits the issues of the women all over the world through the thoughts of two 6th grade students named Achu and Anagha. They have already passed… Read more »

Vermijo

Paul Vernon | United Kingdom | 2017 | 59:10 Facebook Vermijo is a character-driven western and touches on some real contemporary subjects – alcohol abuse, bullying, domestic violence. When their no-good brother is killed in a gunfight with a passing drifter, the sheriff and deputy of a small western town set off with a posse… Read more »

CASH aka GEN AR

Gilles Thompson | France | 2016 | 1:23:00 French with English Subtitles Facebook An ingenious theft of heavily protected jewels a great start for the diamond plotters. But back at their hideout, their clever plans begin to unravel. Who actually has the diamonds? Will one of them run off with the diamonds and a new… Read more »

God

Edwin Brienen | Germany | 2016 | 1:15:00 “God” explores today’s political confusion, whisteblowers and lost spirituality. It tells the story of a woman, Alice (played by New York based Eva Dorrepaal), whose boyfriend Engelbert (played by Australian actor Olaf Savage) is hunted by a corrupt political regime after leaking secret government documents. Stuck in… Read more »