It’s a wise child, the saying goes, that knows its own father. And its own mother. Diane MacMillan Polley, a Canadian actress and casting director, died of cancer in 1990, when her youngest daughter, ...

Fresh from the San Francisco International Film Festival, Sarah Polley’s third film as director, “Stories We Tell,” is unlike her previous feature films, the superb “Away from Her” and “Take This ...

Director Sarah Polley’s documentary Stories We Tell revolves around her parentage. Can I leave it at that, and tell you no more? I’d like every viewer to have a chance to experience the movie’s slow ...

My favorite moment among many in Sarah Polley’s truly extraordinary “Stories We Tell” – one of the great films of the last 12 months – is the A-ha! moment when Polley reveals her indisputable ...

Sarah Polley's mother died when she was 11. For years after, it was a family joke around the dinner table that Sarah's dad, the only one she'd ever known, may not have been her biological father. As a ...