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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Nein

Andrea Bennett | United States | 00:06:06 | 2020 English A little Jewish girl in 1933 Germany observes her Mother’s tense confrontation with guests at their Berlin jewelry store. Cast Amelie Victoria Writer Andrea Bennett

Announced tragedy (English subs)

Fulvio Arrichiello | Italy | 00:09:29 | 2020 Italian with English subtitles A young woman with a shoulder bag walks outside a building. Enter inside and descend down a staircase. Knock on the door and enter. A man is waiting for her at the desk of a small and badly lit office. He offers her… Read more »

Quiet Noise

Patrick Raymond | United States | 00:13:01 | 2020 English Silence is deafening. Filmed in a single shoot day, Quiet Noise is a SHOT-IN-ONE-TAKE psychological drama that follows an anxiety riddled man preparing for his first date while his roommates fuel his deepest insecurities. Cast Matthew Fahey Chris Kimball Cash Phillips Leonardo Santiati Writers Chris… Read more »

I’ll Have Another

Lora Grillo | United States | 00:15:00 | 2020 English A love letter to bartenders and regulars, I’ll Have Another follows interwoven characters across four different bars over the course of one night. Cast Jeremy Balderson Daniel Murphy Scott Engel Lauren Satchwell Leemore Malka Lindsey Austen Sah Abrams Andrea DeFelice Stephen Anderson Michael Brumfield Marie… Read more »

In Place of My Thumb

Joseph Lawson | United States | 00:43:00 | 2020 English In this One-Man Show movie, 33 year old Joe (who plays himself at various ages and other characters) takes a journey in his mind to remember certain events in his life to figure out why, when he stopped sucking his thumb at 5 years old,… Read more »

Nice To Be You

Dino Koutsandreas | United States | 00:06:10 | 2020 English A high school student turned local celebrity makes his way to an unknown destination. Cast Garrett Kristjansson Tania Camargo Leon Nixon Writer Dino Koutsandreas Producer Dino Koutsandreas Director of Photography Huan Manton

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A CRADLE FALLS

Nicole Benoit | Canada | 00:22:00 | 2020 English Witnessed through the eyes of an innocent young girl, a betrayed mothers pain unleashes untold horrors on the people she loves most. Cast Avelyn Graye Alexandria Benoit Iylie Mitchell Brian Quintero Writer Nicole Benoit Producers Nicole Benoit Andrew Bee Alexandria Benoit

Mother Land

Baset Zandi | Islamic Republic of Iran | 2019 | 11:06 Persian with English Subtitles Motherland is a critique of the savior resurrection myth metaphorically. He (as David) regained ‎consciousness ‎from the coma and finds ‎everything is lost. First, he leaves the hospital to find his ‎mother but ‎‎”Djalal”(refers from Dajjal) tells him his ‎mother… Read more »

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Lady Justice

LADY JUSTICE is an action drama set in Los Angeles about a woman who wants to put an end to sex trafficking. After years in captivity and searching for a way to help others from falling into predators’ hands, she realizes that only she can bring justice, but it must be done behind a mask… Read more »

Burqa City

Souleymane and Leila just got married, for better or for worse. The better is that they love each other very much. The worse is that they live in an absurd and kafkaesque country.