{"id":1022,"date":"2026-03-09T04:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:36:11","slug":"holy-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Dancing on the Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday September 9 at 4:00 and 7:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"383\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/Dancing_on_the_Elephant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1062\" style=\"width:313px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/Dancing_on_the_Elephant.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/Dancing_on_the_Elephant-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with a future of chair-xercise and spoon-fed pudding, nursing home friends Nora and Edna attempt to break out of the &#8220;fox farm&#8221; and find a life worth sticking around for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Director\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancingontheelephant.com\/#castcrew\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dancingontheelephant.com\/#castcrew\">Julia Neill, Jacob Z. Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writer\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancingontheelephant.com\/#castcrew\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dancingontheelephant.com\/#castcrew\">Lisa Hagen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stars\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0565319\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0565319\/\">Sheila McCarthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/marywalsh.ca\/\">Mary Walsh,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0115760\/\">Amanda Brugel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dancing on the Elephant (2025) Official Trailer\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3_ONNvIDsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevarsity.ca\/2025\/09\/14\/tiff-review-sktekmujuekatik-at-the-place-of-ghosts\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thevarsity.ca\/2025\/09\/14\/tiff-review-sktekmujuekatik-at-the-place-of-ghosts\/\">REVIEW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cOne of the most endearing kinds of film doesn\u2019t immediately announce its emotional power so much as it gradually and subtly reveals it, scene by scene. The new drama, \u2018Dancing on the Elephant,\u2019 does just that by exploring aging with a tenderness and honesty that feels increasingly rare.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Film Factual<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cMary Walsh\u2019s performance was a poignant, vital and raucously funny portrayal of a senior citizen struggling with dementia and memory loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Atlantic International Film Festival Awards Jury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday September 9 at 4:00 and 7:00 Faced with a future of chair-xercise and spoon-fed pudding, nursing home friends Nora and Edna attempt to break out of the &#8220;fox farm&#8221; and find a life worth sticking around for. REVIEW \u201cOne of the most endearing kinds of film doesn\u2019t immediately announce its emotional power so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunenburgfilms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}