Stories We Tell

A deeply personal documentary essay on family memory and truth, where a filmmaker reconstructs her mother's hidden past through unreliable testimonies and discovers that meaning emerges from contradiction rather than certainty.

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 on 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.