Narrative Short

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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Where The Shadows Fall

Kate Phillips | United States | 2016 | 14 m 9 s Facebook The Man wanders a barren purgatory, seeking those he loved. Cast Bryan Atkins Sofía Leal de la Rosa Gare Brundidge Gabe Dameron

The Strangeness of Coming Home

Alexander Michael Collins | United States | 2015 | 9 m 1 s Aaron, a United States Marine, is eager to return home. However, the world he comes back to feels strange and unfamiliar. Many of his relationships with his friends and family have become strained or distant. Now, Aaron must work to rebuild those… Read more »

The Renovation

Brian Hugh O’Neill | United States | 2016 | 24 m 36 s During hard economic times the lives, motives and interests of a several townspeople converge at Mary’s Place, a rural upstate New York diner, as the owner must decide whether to foreclose on the place, or re-invent in a leap of faith. Cast… Read more »

The Big Swim

Kat Green | Brazil | 2016 | 25 m Facebook | Twitter Rachel (Kimberly Leemans) finds out she might have terminal breast cancer and with the help of a handsome dive master, Luca (Falk Hentschel), decides to face her biggest fear… swimming with SHARKS! Unlike Spielberg’s mechanical shark, The Big Swim was filmed on location… Read more »

Mail.Man

William Aydelott | United States | 2015 | 20 m Facebook With letters something of an endangered species in this new digital age, “Mail.Man” dramatically illustrates their continued importance in a moving but light-hearted fashion, with modern technology still playing an important role. Inspired by a character-driven nod to Frank Capra, the story unfolds through… Read more »

Luxville

Erin McCuskey | Australia | 2015 | 8 m Facebook | Twitter Welcome to Luxville. A mythical city west of the capital; a place where the citizens trade on past glories, all the while living under a long forgotten curse. Once upon a time Luxville was a beacon for magnificent exuberance, now it’s a shop-front… Read more »

Los Niños Sicarios

Rob Lambert | United States | 2015 | 9 m 37 s English, Spanish with English Subtitles Facebook | Twitter Los Niños Sicarios, the title of the film, refers to the child hitmen working for Mexican drug cartels. Along the Southwestern border states the most desired recruits are Mexican-American teenage boys. After 9 months of… Read more »

The Load

Aline Rezende | Country | 2016 | 16 m 33 s Portuguese with English Subtitles A sensual married truck driver mother of two kids, takes a lover to live in her house. How to make the husband accepted this situation? Cast Maria Gal Vinicius Manne Michel Blois Lorena da Silva

Racing The Sunrise

Amy Russo | Country | 2016 | 17 m 20 s Facebook In this film based on a true event, Shrader, her mother, and her two younger sisters live with their chins just above the water. Responsibility has befallen the eldest daughter: the bills don’t get paid without her, and her mother believe negligence fosters… Read more »

The Year I Did Acid

Chandra Siddan | Canada | 2015 | 24 m 25 Facebook Three sisters, Caddy (16), Sarah (14) and Charlie (12), live with their white protestant lower middle class parents in Scarborough (Canada) of the early 70s. Isolated in their suburban prison, the sisters tear at its fabric, each in her own way. While the oldest,… Read more »