Forgiveness Is Real, but Not Compulsive

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"Forgiveness is real. It's true, but not compulsory," she says. "It's something that you have to create conditions where maybe it comes one day." The film follows two young women in a religious community after they flee domestic abuse and are forced to give up their lives for the sake of others' safety. They talk about how forgiveness doesn't have to be this rigid thing: You can create your own version - make it real.

We saw the film WOMEN TALKING and we couldn’t rest until we had the chance to speak with the genius who wrote, directed, and is nominated for an Oscar for it: Sarah Polley.

This conversation is about hope, survival, imagination, and revolution. It’s about burning it all down and building from the ashes.

Please listen to this conversation and then please watch the film. You will be powerfully changed.

CW // sexual assault

About Sarah:

SARAH POLLEY is an Oscar-nominated director and award-winning actor whose works include Away From Her, Take This Waltz, and Stories We Tell. As an actor, Polley starred in a variety of films including The Sweet Hereafter, Go, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. Nobody, and My Life Without Me.

In 2022, Polley released an autobiographical collection of essays – Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory.

More recently, Polley wrote and directed the film adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel Women Talking, which has since been nominated for several awards, including the Academy Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, and Golden Globe Awards.

IG: @realsarahpolley

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