Stories We Tell

First Polley, now Burtynsky-Baichwal—Toronto critics love docs

Toronto critics give Polley the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award for her family memoir ‘Stories We Tell’

It takes courage to uproot the accepted “truths” and mysteries of your own family, but Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley’s documentary inquiry into the tangled secrets of her home life, Stories We Tell, is a triumph of the form. Last night, the toughest audience in any theatre–the Toronto Film Critics Association–awarded her the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic wins four prizes, while ‘Bestiare,’ ‘Goon’ and ‘Stories We Tell’ vie for the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award

The year’s best features and documentaries were announced tonight in Toronto

Deconstruction gone wild in ‘Argo,’ ‘Stories We Tell,’ ‘Seven Psychopaths,’ ‘Nobody Walks,’ and ‘Antiviral’

The best of the Toronto International Film Festival as chosen by our film critic … plus! a booby prize

As we take stock, ‘The Master’ looms large, along with some groundbreaking docs

Now that I’ve seen her documentary, I’m glad I didn’t spill the beans

Canadian film maker gets close to home with new film, Stories We Tell