This text was written and presented to introduce a screening of Sarah Polley’s 2012 film, ‘Stories We Tell’ on 22 February 2016 as part of the Peninsula Arts Women & Cinema season. It was published as a blog by The Arts Institute at the University of Plymouth on 25 February 2016: http://blogs.plymouth.ac.uk/artsinstitute/2016/02/25/introduction-to-screening-of-stories-we-tell-2012/