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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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Israel Winkler, Eldad Bouganim | Israel | 2015 | 10 m 3 s Two men work out together, helping each other breath through the pain and experience the pleasure they are seeking for in their training. In a compelling examination of pain, relationships, and sex, Training Room TLV looks at the social boundaries that keep all three… Read more »

T-County

Brock Yurich | United States | 2015 | 24 m A young fighter living in backwoods Ohio must pay for the sins of his dying Grandfather Cast Brock Yurich Christine Cartell Sean Palmer Mark Brotherton

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The Last Transmission

Stephen Turselli | United States | 2016 | 18 m Facebook Based on a true story about a young Cessna pilot and an aging air traffic controller whose lives collide one fateful night in and over Roswell, New Mexico. Cast Brendan Fehr Dale O’Malley Steven Michael Quezada

Stains

Islamic Republic of Iran | 2016 | 31 m Persian with English Subtitles Leila hasn’t been allowed to experience and make mistakes to know herself and her skills. In her early thirties, she doesn’t know, yet, what she wants in her life. She thinks if she marries, most of her problems will be solved; however it… Read more »

Split Ticket

Alfred Thomas Catalfo | United States | 2016 | 19:35 Facebook In 1947, newly-minted congressmen/future presidents John F. Kennedy, age 29, and Richard Nixon, age 34, travel to Pennsylvania where they must make a fateful decision. A supernatural drama based on true events. Cast Graham King Nathaniel Scott Donna Phofolos Greg Kretschmar Gregory Athans Producer… Read more »

Sllip

Rob Lewis | United States | 2015 | 25 m Facebook | Twitter SLLiP Follows Cam, a young father injured at work who fights to shield his family from his daily pain and addiction. When prescription drugs are not enough to manage, will he risk losing his family and his sanity to his demons? Cast… Read more »

Slave

Amat Escalante | Mexico | 2014 | 12 m 55 s Spanish with English Subtitles 14-year-old Ana is easily seduced by Sam, a 17 year-old young man who, along with his mother and others deceive and blackmail Ana into the world of prostitution. Ana will shortly discover soon that it is part of a network of trafficking… Read more »

Scatter

Jonathan Kehoe | United States | 2015 | 15 m 17 s Abe and Nora are on the road to lay their father’s ashes and find him in each other along the way. Cast Ashley Bacon Sean Gibson Cherry Norris John Bacon

Sanctity

Eric Adrian Marshall | United States | 2016 | 17 m 4 s Facebook The near future. Roe v. Wade has been overturned. Abortion is illegal in America. DANIEL McCAFFREY, a U.S. Reproductive Services Administration agent, spends his days busting shadow clinics and street dealers that peddle the abortion drug M. When Daniel’s ex-girlfriend MARINA… Read more »