“STORIES WE TELL” 2012 | 1h49’ [CA] | WHO ARE WE? WHO WERE WE? Cinema Screenings

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Ciclo QUEM SOMOS? QUEM FOMOS? (QUANDO CONTAMOS HISTÓRIAS)

[WHO ARE WE? WHO WERE WE? (WHEN WE COUNT STORIES) Cinema Screenings]
Curadoria de Alexandre Braga

“STORIES WE TELL” 2012 | 1h49’ [CA] (Histórias que Contamos - PT)
De Sarah Polley

Sábado Dia 11/07 às 19h30 [Saturday 07/11 at 7:30pm]

A realizadora Sarah Polley investiga um segredo familiar através de entrevistas, arquivos e reconstruções cinematográficas. O filme revela como a memória e a narrativa moldam a verdade.

Director Sarah Polley investigates a family secret through interviews, archives, and cinematic reconstructions. The film reveals how memory and storytelling shape truth.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese

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There is a question that accompanies every human life: who are we? Yet perhaps there is another, even more fundamental: who were we before becoming who we are today?
We live surrounded by stories. We tell them to others, we tell versions of ourselves, and we inherit narratives that began long before we were born. Memory is never a simple archive of events; it is a living landscape where remembrance, imagination, silence and forgetting coexist. It is through stories that we make sense of the past and attempt to understand the present.

Documentary cinema occupies a unique place within this process. Some filmmakers have understood that filming a life is not merely about preserving facts or testimonies, but about performing a profoundly ethical act: offering time, attention and dignity to another person's experience. When someone is truly listened to, something remarkable happens: their existence is no longer simply lived—it also becomes understood.
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