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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The Principal’s Assembly

Jordan Ancel | United States | 00:18:25 | 2023 English A high school principal’s grief over the loss of a student spirals into substance abuse. To escape her anguish, she slides into a summer habit of frequenting an out-of-the-way bar whose bartender reminds her of the student until she suffers the harsh reality of her… Read more »

Solitarity

Melissa Bronski, Shanna Riker | United States | 00:08:14 | 2023 English Solitarity is a surrealist exploration of what would happen if depression were to manifest in your living room as a human like entity and you are forced to deal with it head on and face to face. Cast Dillon Sibilla Josh Bartosch Vernon… Read more »

Papers

Nano Alvarado | United States | 00:23:40 | 2022 English, Spanish A Hispanic American has bitten off more than he can chew in a paid arranged marriage for US Citizenship with a Mexican Beauty as she is the daughter of a Mexican drug lord. After discovering that a Mexican girl was willing to pay $200k… Read more »

B.L.I.S.S.

David Cook | United States | 00:27:00 | 2022 English Teenager Akiko is mysteriously sent 30 years into the future. In this future, everyone uses a digital assistant/life management A.I. system called B.L.I.S.S., and Akiko is immediately set up with one when she is sent to live with once younger, now older brother Hiro. She… Read more »

Ignition

Derek Toombs | United States | 00:09:23 | 2022 English When the sun starts dying, an apathetic young man will have to do something he’s never done before to reignite it and save his girlfriend’s garden: try. Also build a rocket, learn nuclear fusion and launch himself into the sun, but mostly, try. Cast Derek… Read more »

The Chief

Aundra Michael Segrest | United States | 00:20:51 | 2022 English The Chief in Nash Valley has been characterized as a spiritual man, but firm when it comes to fighting crime and being respectable, to all persons regardless of race, creed, color, origin, nationality or sex. He conducts and carry himself in a very professional… Read more »

Home Sweet Home

Mukesh Kumar Singh | India | 00:06:57 | 2022 Hindi Story of two families…has not given subtitles as words are meaningless in this story. Cast Shweta Munshi Akriti Sharma Rajiv Ranjan Bhoopesh Singh Poonam Shende Writer Mukesh Kumar Singh Producer Mukesh Kumar Singh

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Mechongué

Arturo Prins López | Argentina | 00:29:00 | 2022 Spanish A road in the Pampean plain becomes the scene of a mysterious encounter between a gardener and a ragged, trampy old man. Between the two an unexpected communication arises that leads our protagonist to a direct clash with the uncomfortable, the unpleasant. In a suspicious… Read more »

Skookum Jim and The American Dream

Ken Smyth | United Kingdom | 00:40:29 | 2022 English This film by Scottish artist Ken Smyth explores the impact of The Klondike Gold Rush on both the indigenous people of Yukon in North West Canada and on the fake-news-inspired, get-rich-quick, American prospectors. It raises issues of racism, cultural imperialism and environmental destruction that remain… Read more »

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Double Zero

Pat Bradley | United States | 00:20:00 | 2022 English After botching a job for the most ruthless crime boss in NYC, two women must play a game of modified Russian Roulette to survive. Cast Jamie Ragusa Casey Sullivan Caroline Anderson Vivian Belosky Writer Pat Bradley Producers Pat Bradley Jamie Ragusa