Narrative is generally accepted as possessing two components: the story presented and the process of its telling. “A narrative film is a film that tells a cohesive, often fictional, story with cause and effect events through filmmaking techniques. Narrative films entail two components: the story itself and the process of telling the story or narrative. The latter involves filmmaking techniques that have developed over time such as directing, cinematography, and screenwriting.” https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-narrativefilm-definition/

A practice of filmmaking that deals with actual and factual (and usually contemporary) issues, institutions, and people; whose purpose is to educate, inform, communicate, persuade, raise consciousness, or satisfy curiosity; in which the viewer is commonly addressed as a citizen of a public sphere; whose materials are selected and arranged from what already exists (rather than being made up); and whose methods involve filming ‘real people’ as themselves in actual locations, using natural light and ambient sound.