Stories We Tell

Director: Sarah Polley
Writer: Sarah Polley
Cast: Sarah Polley
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 2013
Distributor: Roadside Attractions

Synopsis: In this inspired, genre-twisting film, Academy Award-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 behind a family of storytellers. She playfully 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 a lively, fun-loving past and the shadows just beneath. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: a messy, intense and loving tangle of contradictions. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]

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