From times immemorial people have been telling stories to one another; humanity at large as well as entire civilizations have been built upon the impetus of this storytelling. First orally, later through other media and art forms, stories have spread among cultures, eras, and generations stimulating an ever-growing dissemination. Technical and technological developments have helped in this enterprise across a vast array of long-lasting and canonical art forms as well as more popular and recent ones. Film sits precisely at that intersection, which makes it a privileged form for media confluences at the service of narrative spreading. But how does this dialogue between cinema and other media and/or art forms operate? How are stories conveyed from the former to the latter, and vice versa? What, if anything, changes in that transposition, and what remains the same? How does creativity work at this border-crossing and exactly what does it entail? Urged by these questions, the current issue of Ekphrasis aims at examining the narrative phenomenon across media borders, in the confluence of other media and art forms.