The Body Remembers Friday, September 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM PDT
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A Shadbolt Presentation
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
A Canadian Film
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open is a quiet, highly realistic drama with themes felt deeply across the population of Canada and the world. An incredibly important story, aimed at cinephiles. With incredible Canadian talent in front of and behind the camera, the film’s unique lens sheds light on the very true experiences of Indigenous women and offers a fantastic opportunity to touch audiences in an impactful way.
A chance encounter between two Indigenous women from different worlds propels this daring, delicate, and much-lauded Vancouver feature, co-written and co-directed by Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
In the film, Tailfeathers plays Áila who, on returning from a medical appointment to her East Van home sees Rosie (Violet Nelson), 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 in something like real-time over the course of a night - the film appears to be shot in one single, continuous take. This meeting of two strangers is the catalyst for a thoughtful drama as poetic as its title. Tailfeathers, of Blackfoot and Sámi heritage, makes her feature directorial debut (her documentaries were showcased in a 2019 Cinematheque exhibition). Hepburn has a prior feature to her credit, 2017’s Never Steady, Never Still. The Body Remembers premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, and has won Canadian Screen Awards for Direction, Original Screenplay, and (Norm Li’s) Cinematography. In 2020 the film won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, Canada's most prestigious film award.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to show, please note for some shows latecomers may not be guaranteed entry.
Post screening talk back after the film.
Run time: 1 hour 45 minutes
TICKET FEES
$25.00
Reserved Seating
Group Rates Please contact the box office for group rates of 10 or more.
Please contact the Box Office if you require accessible seating or have ticketing or subscription questions. 604.205.3000
Group Rates - You can use this ticket as part of subscription but there is no discount avaiable.
No refunds on tickets. 2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
A Canadian Film
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open is a quiet, highly realistic drama with themes felt deeply across the population of Canada and the world. An incredibly important story, aimed at cinephiles. With incredible Canadian talent in front of and behind the camera, the film’s unique lens sheds light on the very true experiences of Indigenous women and offers a fantastic opportunity to touch audiences in an impactful way.
A chance encounter between two Indigenous women from different worlds propels this daring, delicate, and much-lauded Vancouver feature, co-written and co-directed by Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
In the film, Tailfeathers plays Áila who, on returning from a medical appointment to her East Van home sees Rosie (Violet Nelson), 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 in something like real-time over the course of a night - the film appears to be shot in one single, continuous take. This meeting of two strangers is the catalyst for a thoughtful drama as poetic as its title. Tailfeathers, of Blackfoot and Sámi heritage, makes her feature directorial debut (her documentaries were showcased in a 2019 Cinematheque exhibition). Hepburn has a prior feature to her credit, 2017’s Never Steady, Never Still. The Body Remembers premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, and has won Canadian Screen Awards for Direction, Original Screenplay, and (Norm Li’s) Cinematography. In 2020 the film won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, Canada's most prestigious film award.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to show, please note for some shows latecomers may not be guaranteed entry.
Post screening talk back after the film.
Run time: 1 hour 45 minutes
TICKET FEES
$25.00
Reserved Seating
Group Rates Please contact the box office for group rates of 10 or more.
Please contact the Box Office if you require accessible seating or have ticketing or subscription questions. 604.205.3000
Group Rates - You can use this ticket as part of subscription but there is no discount avaiable.
No refunds on tickets. 2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges
Venue
Studio Theatre Reserved
6450 Deer Lake Avenue
Burnaby BC V5G 2J3
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A Shadbolt Presentation
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
A chance encounter between two Indigenous women from different worlds propels this daring, delicate, and award-winning Vancouver film.
The Box Office will be closed for the summer starting Monday June 23 and re-open September 2. We will be checking emails during this time. Please email any questions, including accessible seating requests, to boxoffice@burnaby.ca.
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
A chance encounter between two Indigenous women from different worlds propels this daring, delicate, and award-winning Vancouver film.
The Box Office will be closed for the summer starting Monday June 23 and re-open September 2. We will be checking emails during this time. Please email any questions, including accessible seating requests, to boxoffice@burnaby.ca.