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Special Screening – The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open

March 3 2024 / 5:00pm - 7:30pm

UPDATE: TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT


CO-PRESENTATION | COMOX VALLEY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL + CVAG

A special screening of The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open, an award-winning film about a chance encounter between two Indigenous women from contrasting backgrounds, will take place on Sunday, March 3 at 5PM at Landmark Cinemas — 2655 Cliffe Ave., Courtenay.

Following the screening, Kwakwaka’wakw actor Violet Nelson, co-director Kathleen Hepburn, and producer Tyler Hagen will be on hand for a dialogue with the audience.

This event is a co-presentation of the Comox Valley International Film Festival and CVAG.


THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN

Taking its title from an essay by Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, and based on a watershed moment in co-director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ own life, this story of a chance encounter between two women — living in the same Vancouver neighbourhood, but coming from distinct worlds of class and lived experience — reveals the necessity for Indigenous people to look out for one another in a society that’s too often indifferent to their existence.

The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open received the 2019 Toronto Film Critics Association and 2020 Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Best Canadian Film. It was also nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards, receiving the 2020 CSAs for Original Screenplay, Achievement in Direction, and Achievement in Cinematography.

Screening: 5PM on Sunday, March 3
Directors: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Starring: Violet Nelson, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Charlie Hannah
Language: English
Length: 105 mins
Country: Canada, Norway
Year: 2019
Content Advisory: coarse language, sexual language


TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE

Tickets for the screening are $17.

Click here to purchase online through Tickit.