SJIWFF36 Thursday Evening Feature: Dancing on the Elephant
Price
Regular $15.00 Discounted $12.75
Date
Thu October 23, 2025
Show Time
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St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival presents
Dancing on the Elephant
Presenting Partner RBC
When Nora’s (Sheila McCarthy) son drops her off at Shady Rest Retirement Home, she’s pretty sure there's not much left to hope for. That is, until unfiltered firecracker Edna (Mary Walsh) wheels into her life and reminds her it ain’t over till it’s over. The pair kindle a friendship around a love of Fat Archies cookies, disdain for “Chair-xercise,” and Edna’s quest to escape the “fox farm.” Edna’s failing memory eventually lands her in the secure memory care wing, leaving Nora to plot one last grand adventure in hopes of reminding her friend there are still elephants left to dance on.
Content warning: discussion and/or depiction of suicide
Directors: Julia Neill, Jacob Smith
Writer: Lisa Hagen
Producer: Tanya Preyde, Walter Forsyth
94 mins
Canada
English
Opening short: Last Love Letter
Lily Belle (Renée Hackett) enters the Last Love Letter contest at the post office and a co-worker Ephram Amore (Andy Jones) catches her tampering with the mail to change her luck and find true love.
Director/Writer/Producer: Rhonda Buckley
6 mins
Canada (NL)
English
Please visit https://www.womensfilmfestival.com/sjiwff36-events/dancing-on-the-elephant for more information and our full festival lineup.
No latecomers admitted. Viewer discretion advised: films at SJIWFF are not rated.