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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Knowing Nothing Cold

Jeff Kao | United States | 2016 | 1:32:18 Website |  Facebook ‘Knowing Nothing Cold’ is about mid-western American teenagers in the late 1970s, attempting the impossible-a graceful entrance into adulthood. Cast Jasmine Stade Gabe Bennett Emmalee Johnson-Kao Tyler Bohon Writer Jeff Kao Producer Ali Hanson

Let’s Have an Adventure

Diego Brazzo | United States | 2017 | 1:13:52 Facebook A young man goes on a soul searching road trip after finding a toy robot from his childhood. Cast Greg Poppa Alina Woods Writer Greg Poppa

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Sundown

Brendan Boogie | United States | 2017 | 1:35:38 Website | Facebook | Twitter SUNDOWN is a feature-length indie comedy about ravages and absurdities of living with dementia. When a free-spirited gambler returns home to help his family with their dementia-addled patriarch, he finds being a caretaker a lot more complicated than he bet on…. Read more »

Texoma

Matt Jenkins, Charles Stanley | United States | 2017 | 1:18:00 Website Rancher Clint Forest’s girlfriend Kat has dumped him again. She’s fed up with his easy going nature and inattentiveness. Clint’s mind is elsewhere. At his ex-wife’s insistence, he’s looking into the suspicious death of an old friend. Clint’s problems are compounded by rival… Read more »

The 5 Year

James Christopher | United States | 2017 | 1:35:00 Website | Facebook 7 friends spend a weekend together 5 years after their graduation only to learn that, without each other, their lives are falling apart. Cast Derek Babb Alyssa Rivera Mindy Fay Parks Christopher James Raynor Rachel Clark-Spear Mike Donis Tracy Ely Shelby Cullinan Richard… Read more »

The Ring Around the Rose

Jenner Jose | United States | 2017 | 2:00:00 Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil with English Subtitles Website This is a Magical Realism movie about Anjali, her death and the baffling mystical circumstances that follow. Anjali is on her way to save an orphan boy when she is murdered. Strangely a mystical consequence unfolds that puts Anjali… Read more »

Sic Transit Gloria

Jonathan Elihu Klein | United States | 2017 | 1:41:23 Website | Facebook A young girl, Alice, stumbles upon a rural home run by a gang of vicious boys in their early twenties. By striking up a friendship with the gang’s leader, Alice begins to learn what happened to the world around her and how… Read more »

One, Two, Guess Who’s Who

System | Italy | 2017 | 1:48:00 Website | Facebook | Twitter In a rich Manhattan condo, a billionaire lady is murdered. All the evidence leads the police to the conclusion of a suspect but they are wrong. A murder mystery in the style of Hitchcock that goes backwards Cast Erika Robel Ben Robertson Victoria… Read more »

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Somewhere in Tonga

Florian Schewe | Germany | 2017 | 1:37:00 English, German, Tonga with English Subtitles Website Based on a true story and shot mostly with first-time actors, SOMEWHERE IN TONGA is the first narrative feature out of Tonga. Cast Sascha Alexander Geršak Luis Pintsch Lolohea Lin Tevita Fukuoka Fuahea Semi Wolfgang S. Zechmeyer Writer Sarah Schill… Read more »

Baby Frankenstein

Jon YonKondy | United States | 2018 | 1:23:00 Website ‘Baby Frankenstein’ is a comedy-drama feature film that tells the story of young Lance and his unlikely friendship with a pint-sized, self-aware automaton. After Lance stumbles upon this ‘little dude’, he enlists the help of the sassy girl-next-door, to protect him from his mom’s boyfriend,… Read more »