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STORIES WE TELL

By Sarah POLLEY

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Biography - Completed 2012

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2012

Telluride FF 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Biography, Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Sarah POLLEY
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-25EA-0000-6-0000-0000-J
- EIDR
- 10.5240/6CF3-8450-8B9E-73F9-4C30-F
- Synopsis
- In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.