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How Director Elle-Maija Tailfeathers Discovered a Path to Healing on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis
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Director and producer Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers opens her documentary “Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy” with a peaceful, slow-motion scene of buffalo calves grazing alongside their mothers while the voice of the filmmaker’s mother, a family doctor, is heard gently speaking to a mother about her baby.
A coproduction between Tailfeathers’ Seen Through Woman Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, which is also selling the film, “Kímmapiiyipitssini” is a chronicle of her community’s steady efforts to confront its substance-use crisis and heal by cultivating empathy through harm reduction.
This week s top picks in local arts and entertainment. Written By: Christa Lawler | × The Body Remembers opens indigenous film series
“The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open” is the story of two indigenous women whose worlds intersect on a sidewalk one pregnant, bleeding and on the run, the other fresh from a doctor’s appointment. The women end up spending an emotionally significant amount of time together in the Canadian film directed by Elle-Maija Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn and written by the latter. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Photo by Violator Films/Experimental Forest Films/Oslo Pictures/Film Farms)