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Trailer Watch: Sarah Polley Directs a Documentary — Stories We Tell

This is a busy year for Sarah Polley. Her film Take This Waltz is now in release in the US and now she has a documentary premiering at Venice and Toronto.

Here’s the opaque description from the National Film Board of Canada site:

Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley offers up a genre-twisting film that playfully excavates layers of myth and memory to reveal the truth at the core of a family of storytellers. The film premieres at Venice Days film festival, followed by a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Sarah Polley’s new film, ‘Stories We Tell,’ to open at Venice Film Festival (The Star)


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