On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

classified 12A PS
Film

Please note: This was screened in Dec 2024

Director
Rungano Nyoni
Cast
Susan Chardy, Roy Chisha, Blessings Bhamjee
Details
95 mins, & Partially Subtitled, 2024, UK, Zambia
Primary language
English, Bemba

"...a quivering collective fury scalds through the silence in Rungano Nyoni’s tremendous new film." Variety

Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to her BAFTA-winning debut I Am Not a Witch is a powerful and atmospheric tale of tradition, abuse and strength within a Zambian family.

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class family, in this surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.


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