Stories We Tell

Canada, 2012

Film

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Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.

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Credits

director

Sarah Polley

costume designer

Sarah Armstrong

producer

Anita Lee

production company

ONF | NFB

production design

Lea Carlson

writer

Michael Polley

Sarah Polley

Duration

01:49:00

Production places
Canada
Production dates
2012

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-128216

Language

English

Subject category

Documentary

TMDB-Movie

128216

Wikidata

Q7620031

Collected

119 times

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