Amidst the annoucements for TIFF 2012 comes a hot Canadian title set to play at the Venice film festival: Sarah Polley's documentary
Stories We Tell. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada's Anita Lee, the big annoucement comes courtesy of the NFB:
The
National
Film Board of Canada (NFB) is pleased to announce that its collaboration
with acclaimed filmmaker Sarah Polley,
Stories
We Tell, will have its world premiere in the Venice Days program held
during the prestigious
Venice Film Festival (August 29–September 8).
Stories We Tell was produced by Anita
Lee and executive produced by Silva Basmajian of the NFB’s Ontario Centre.
About the film
In this inspired, genre-twisting 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
behind 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 a lively, fun-loving past and the shadows just beneath.
Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: a complex,
messy, intense and deeply loving tangle of contradictions.
