Doors and entertainment from 4:00pm, including special intro.
Screening starts at 5pm sharp.
A Mother’s Day World Premiere! Be the first to experience Stories About My Body on the big screen — by Morgana O'Reilly (The White Lotus, Mean Mums). Following a sell-out live season, this fearless, funny and deeply personal show has been tenderly transformed for the screen by husband-and-wife duo Peter Salmon and Morgana O’Reilly.
Stories About My Body is Morgana O’Reilly’s fearless, funny, and unexpectedly tender 70-minute feature making its world premiere in the NZICF. O’Reilly turns her own body into a map of memory, mischief, and motherhood. With the precision of stand-up and the intimacy of a confession, she traces a life lived in skin: 78 organs, 206 bones, 32 teeth, 8.8 kilograms of armour, and two whole human bodies brought into the world.
What begins as a wildly candid comedy special blooms into a story-driven film of sharp observations and big-hearted truths - spanning diary entries from ’98, boobs, birth, selling toes in New York City, and the ongoing, complicated task of learning to like her chins - this is a celebration of messy, magnificent womanhood.
Unfiltered, vulnerable, and gloriously unapologetic, Stories About My Body comes with a warning: there will be nudity… and you will love it.
“Brilliant and beautiful.” – Parker Posey
“Gorgeous, gross and hilarious.” – Carrie Coon
A NZ International Comedy Festival event.
Starring Morgana O'Reilly
Directed by Morgana O'Reilly and Peter Salmon
R13. This film contains occasional bad language, adult themes, nudity, discusses body dysmorphia and contains birth footage.
