Storytelling Movies

One afternoon, during tea time, a grandfather's memories and ingenuity inspire three stories to entertain his grandson during his stay. The tale of a...

Actor Stephen Tobolowsky has acted in over 200 TV shows and films over the past 40 years, possessing one of the most dazzlingly diverse filmographies...

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives,...

Two storytellers put forth their versions of the story of Shravan Kumar. The art for the film uses painted images from a wooden portable shrine...

Lydia (Giuly Biancato) is an aspiring writer kidnapped by Zikto (Renet Lyon), a giant Brazilian brown spider. Every night, she must tell a different...

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

Located in Winnipeg’s downtown core, Gordon Bell High School is probably the most culturally varied school in the city. In an effort to build...

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, old gods are upset with us, and...

A filmmaker is invited to an actor's house, who is keenly interested in his story. For the story to be told, the characters need to speak for...

Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the...

Polonia Brothers horror anthology, includes four short stories of terror.

As the second work of young director Ran Yinxiao, "May the Rivers and Seas Flow Upward" is set in Chongqing and tells a different kind of family...

Ts'oostsitsi is a Blackfoot word used to describe the past. Feeling responsible to continue storytelling in his family, Ike Solway recounts a...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

Five years after "Oluf" was laid to rest, Arthur Arntzen is back with perhaps one of the most beloved Norwegian humor characters of all time. He...

Light Upon Light: A Documentary on Hijab is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of the diverse, raw, and untold stories of hijabi women....

Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to...

A man receives a message from an unknown number inviting him to return to the place where it all began. Following the clue, he returns to a park from...

No one could spin a yarn to make a sale like Ray Lum. Twenty years after their initial meeting, Bill Ferris returned home to Mississippi in the early...

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using...