The Body Beautiful

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

• Ngozi OnwurahDirector
• Ngozi OnwurahWriter
• Jonathon HirstOriginal Music Composer
• Anthony QuigleyOriginal Music Composer

• Madge OnwurahNarrator (voice) Mother/Herself
• Rosie RowellNarrator (voice) Daughter
• Sian Ejiwunmi-Le BerreThe Daughter (as Sian Martin)
• Brian BovellYoung Man
• Maureen DouglassYoung Mother
• Valentine NonyelaPeter
• Louis AltinsonCast
• Linda DobsonCast
• Richard GrayCast
• Haley McKayCast
• Michael McKayCast
• Nina McKayCast