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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Dr. Rayner Henry Pailus | Malaysia | 00:39:39 | 2022 Other Synopsis Bimbizangan means “Butterfly” in the Kadazan language, a First Nation community, for the state of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. It represents a girl or a crush. In this movie Tracie is heart broken from the actions of her boyfriend Carl whom many thought had… Read more »

End Game

Bruce H Gill | United Kingdom | 00:05:00 | 2022 English A young man learns the truth about his parents’ death and begins a convoluted journey to a dark world, manipulated by an entity that appears to have no existence. Cast Helen Mutch Andrew James Porter Writers Ingo Kaddatz Andrew James Porter Producers Sam McCarthy… Read more »

PAY PHONE

Yurugu Matsumoto | Japan | 00:15:47 | 2022 Japanese Saki in her late twenties unexpectedly gets an incoming call from a pay phone. The caller is her father Sizuo, who lives apart from her. Reunited for the first time after a long time, they are both clumsy and two of a kind. A small night’s… Read more »

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Try To

Luca Martin Karl Werner-Tutschku | Austria | 00:28:11 | 2022 English John finds himself alone in a sterile, empty world. At first he cannot move, but after breaking his stupor, John is able to explore his surroundings. Step by step his aching body stumbles through a world that is definitely trying to tell him something…. Read more »

A Dog And His Boy

Cameron Milani | United States | 00:15:27 | 2022 English Refusing to connect with the world outside of his trashed apartment, Theo spends his days on the couch watching television. With his solitude thrown into chaos upon discovering a handicapped dog abandoned on his doorstep, Theo attempts to overcome his fear of the world beyond… Read more »

To Be A Man

Nicholas Merch McCullom | United States | 00:19:00 | 2022 English A recently widowed William Burrell is now struggling to take care of his opinionated 17 year old son Cashes, and his impressionable 8 year old son Sunny. For the past 2 years William has been working overtime to gain favor with the owner for… Read more »

《Wall of Air》

于 耀 | China | 00:29:30 | 2022 Chinese Zhengmin, a young “North defector”, narrowly escaped the gunfire of the Korean border guards, sneaked into Xiulian’s house, a villager who had just lost his daughter, and was kindly taken in. Zhengmin met MINXIU of the same age in the village through a ball. They gradually… Read more »

Mommy come back

GERARDO TELLEZ | Mexico | 00:11:24 | 2023 Spanish Lucero loses her mother, but a little miracle is about to happen. Cast Susana Huacuja Evangelina Martínez Writer GERARDO TELLEZ Producers ANNA VELASCO Antonio Ortiz Luis Florencia

Am I Evil?

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DURGA THE WARRIOR

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