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Canadian actress turned director Sarah Polley engages in a bout of navel-gazing with her new documentary, "Stories We Tell."

Every family has its secrets, and these days it seems like anyone with a word processor and/or camera is willing to mine theirs for a memoir or documentary.

PARK CITY, Utah - Enough with telling other people's stories. Sarah Polley has moved on to telling her own, and it's as strange, revealing, disturbing and ultimately uplifting as anything a fictional filmmaker could dream up in her own head.

Sarah Polley is an actress and director who stars in a documentary "Stories We Tell" about her family and issues of paternity.

Canadian actress turned director Sarah Polley engages in a bout of navel gazing with her new documentary, "Stories We Tell." It's about her late mother, and she assembles her siblings and other relatives and family friends for "an interrogation," as they recollect their memories of her in building a sometimes contradictory portrait of a woman who ... (more)