Since 1988 the Bookshelf Cinema has been providing the Guelph and area community with film programming that featured independent and local productions, foreign films and documentaries, as well as commercial and classic movie titles in rep.
Due to COVID-19, the entire Bookshelf (bookstore, cinema and eBar) closed on March 16,2020. In the time since, we have been offering online and telephone sales of books and wine. The cinema has offered a limited number of films to stream online courtesy of a couple of our longtime distribution partners. We are pleased to accept an additional partner, levelFILM, who has offered to share the revenues generated in streaming their films. Many of these titles were to appear in our upcoming program prior to the current COVID-19 restrictions and some films you may recognize from our previous programs.
We thank levelFILM for the opportunity to share these new and return engagement titles to stream at home until we might be able to enjoy films in the cinema again.
Áila, returning home emotionally tender and exhausted from a difficult appointment with her OB-GYN, finds a terrified, barefoot and heavily pregnant Rosie shivering out in the rain. Clearly in need, Rosie is paralyzed: caught between escaping her violent boyfriend heard screaming from across the street and having nowhere to go. Frightened by the escalating danger, Áila grabs Rosie and urges her to move quickly to the safety of Áila’s nearby apartment.
Thus begins a long, tense afternoon of bare instinct – both of survival and of motherhood—as the two Indigenous women from very different backgrounds, seek some semblance of stability and safety for themselves and each other.
A love poem to women, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN weaves a compellingly simple story around the complex themes of racialized female bodies, a country's failure to support its most vulnerable youth, and the continuing effects of colonial violence.
- Year2019
- Runtime105 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- RatingPG
- DirectorKathleen Hepburn; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
- ScreenwriterElle-Máijá Tailfeathers; Kathleen Hepburn
- ProducerTyler Hagan; Lori Lozinski; Alan R. Milligan
- CastElle-Máijá Tailfeathers; Violet Nelson; Charlie Hannah; Barbara Eve Harris
Since 1988 the Bookshelf Cinema has been providing the Guelph and area community with film programming that featured independent and local productions, foreign films and documentaries, as well as commercial and classic movie titles in rep.
Due to COVID-19, the entire Bookshelf (bookstore, cinema and eBar) closed on March 16,2020. In the time since, we have been offering online and telephone sales of books and wine. The cinema has offered a limited number of films to stream online courtesy of a couple of our longtime distribution partners. We are pleased to accept an additional partner, levelFILM, who has offered to share the revenues generated in streaming their films. Many of these titles were to appear in our upcoming program prior to the current COVID-19 restrictions and some films you may recognize from our previous programs.
We thank levelFILM for the opportunity to share these new and return engagement titles to stream at home until we might be able to enjoy films in the cinema again.
Áila, returning home emotionally tender and exhausted from a difficult appointment with her OB-GYN, finds a terrified, barefoot and heavily pregnant Rosie shivering out in the rain. Clearly in need, Rosie is paralyzed: caught between escaping her violent boyfriend heard screaming from across the street and having nowhere to go. Frightened by the escalating danger, Áila grabs Rosie and urges her to move quickly to the safety of Áila’s nearby apartment.
Thus begins a long, tense afternoon of bare instinct – both of survival and of motherhood—as the two Indigenous women from very different backgrounds, seek some semblance of stability and safety for themselves and each other.
A love poem to women, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN weaves a compellingly simple story around the complex themes of racialized female bodies, a country's failure to support its most vulnerable youth, and the continuing effects of colonial violence.
- Year2019
- Runtime105 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- RatingPG
- DirectorKathleen Hepburn; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
- ScreenwriterElle-Máijá Tailfeathers; Kathleen Hepburn
- ProducerTyler Hagan; Lori Lozinski; Alan R. Milligan
- CastElle-Máijá Tailfeathers; Violet Nelson; Charlie Hannah; Barbara Eve Harris