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College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

An old man from Namur and his grandchild take part in a live radio show. Maxime Cottin, a writer and town celebrity has just published a new book. He is asked to narrate a story about the day he turned ten years old. The memories and images conjured up by the story induce a strange tension between the two men.

From cave drawings to echo chambers: the history of humankind is a history of storytelling.

Two children, Pierre and Jeanne, register their father into a televised contest of papas storytellers. Terrified, Laurent, the father, will have to redouble his imagination to look good next to his ruthless competitors.

A compilation of the music videos produced by the band Talking Heads, interspersed with various everyday people telling anecdotes about their lives.

A well known storyteller, Tomas O' Diorain tells tales of the sea around a fire in an old Irish cottage. His storytelling is juxtaposed with images of the sea. This film, thought lost was rediscovered by Houghton Library curators during a cataloging update in 2013.

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 bridges of friendship and belonging across cultures and histories, teacher Marc Kuly initiated an after-school storytelling project. The catalyst for this cross-cultural interaction was the students’ reading of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, a memoir of Beah’s horrific time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war. These voluntary after-school meetings take dramatic turns and reach their climax when Ishmael Beah and professional storyteller Laura Simms travel from New York to work with them. With their help the students learn to listen to each other and find the commonality that so long eluded them.

A 26 minutes sequence shot while two script writers create a horror story about friends that have to run away and survive in a house from a slasher attacking.

Collected interviews with filmmakers from the Greenwood, SC area.

The Art of Storytelling started in 1998 as a graffiti video magazine. The Art of Storytelling DVD was released in 2005.

In the back of a underground Jazz club in New York’s Greenwich village, a group of friends would meet every month and tell stories for an intimate audience. These weren’t just any friends, they were New York’s best stand up comedians, and these weren’t just any stories, they were true, slice-of-life accounts from the people who make people laugh for a living. For anyone who has ever wondered: “Where does the comedy come from?”, here is your answer. Behind the scenes. Below the radar. Raising the bar. Urban Myth. Real stories. Real comics. Real funny.

Featuring musicians and cultural practitioners from the Marianas archipelago, the film aims to bring indigenous voices of the Marianas into conversation with one another.

This program profiles writers of the 20s, 30s, and 40s--known as the Pulp Fiction era. These writers created the iconic movies and characters who live on today in our collective hearts and imaginations. It has even been estimated that 90-95% of the top blockbusters in Hollywood movies were based on stories from the Pulp Fiction era.

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Hit the books with Bear, Tutter, Pip & Pop, and more, in three adventures that teach your child about storytelling, encourage vocabulary skills, and promote kindness and sharing. It's prime time for rhymes when everyone settles into the Big Blue House for an afternoon of yarn spinning in "What's The Story?" Then learn how the right word makes all the difference in "Words, Words, Words," before joining Bear and the gang for the very first meting of Bear's Book Club in "Read My Book." When communication counts you can count on the fun in the Big Blue House!

A teacher uses a puppet clown, the black-board and mounted pictures in teaching primary school children to arrange events chronologically when telling a story.

The story of who psychiatrists are today, what they do, and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them. Psychiatrists are notoriously private; cautious about revealing personal information, and noticeably absent in the media. What has been the consequence of this? If you don’t tell your story, someone else will tell it for you. Mental illness is the number one cause of disability worldwide, however many patients still fear coming to see a psychiatrist – that they will be overmedicated, not listened to, not understood, not cared for, or worse - maybe the psychiatrist will see how “crazy” they are and lock them up. The stereotype of being “crazy” is equated with being dangerous, weird, scary, and ostracized - and in some ways - so is being a psychiatrist.

A feature-length documentary celebrating the life and work of Trinity Bay artist and storyteller Clifford George.

This tape features Kathryn Windham, a noted children's author and librarian from Selma, Alabama, relating a ghost story about "The Jumbo Light" at the 1974 Jonesboro Storytelling Festival.

Debut feature-length stand-up comedy special from comedian DC Pierson. Filmed at Echoes Under Sunset in scenic Echo Park, Los Angeles.

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.

A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

During a power outage, two strangers tell scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life in the dark of a Catskills cabin. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller.

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

A poetic translation of the universal feeling at one's unknown next step. It connects to the overwhelming periods of doubtful thoughts yet resilient ambition one may encounter. A visual and aural combination of fear yet fearlessness.

Retired martial arts world champion Alex Faulkner has settled into a simple life, when the disappearance of two of his students leads to an unthinkable discovery close to home. Just when all hope of finding the children is lost, he locates the imprisoned girls and unsurfaces an international child trafficking operation, which draws him back into the fight of his life against those behind it.

A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.

A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

A city boy, Shinji, is sent to live in the countryside to escape the Tokyo bombings, where he experiences the complexities of rural school life, including a power struggle with the local class leader, Takeshi.

Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging from sexist to the darker sides of carnal desires.

The innocent lines of a young girl’s diary recount the visit of her father’s colleagues, the games played in the garden, and the weight of the summer heat through her naïve perspective. Yet, when a “snowflake” falls onto her notebook, it slowly begins to reveal traces of another, unseen reality. What starts with childhood innocence and joy gradually touches upon a far heavier truth of our time.

A person watches and analyzes other people from a staircase, but he or she is not the same as other people, or so he or she thinks.

Ria is a third grade student and she got a writing assignment about her holiday. But, she writes about her story with her mom instead.

When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.