The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open screens at the Shadbolt Centre, September 12
Award-winning feature film tells the story of two Indigenous women who meet during a chance encounter
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Violet Nelson as Áila in The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open.
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents a screening of the quiet, highly realistic drama The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open on September 12 at 7:30 pm. A chance encounter between two Indigenous women from different worlds propels this daring Vancouver feature, co-written and co-directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn.
Tailfeathers plays Áila, who returns to her East Van home from a medical appointment and sees Rosie, a young Kwakwaka’wakw woman, standing barefoot and bedraggled in the rain. Rosie has fled an abusive boyfriend; Áila resolves to help her. An intimate, urgent story unfolds over the course of a night, as the film appears to be shot in one continuous take.
The Body Remembers premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and has since won several awards, including the prestigious Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.
Tickets are available through the Shadbolt Centre.
Post sponsored by Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
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