2024
99 minutes
Independent, Comedy, Drama, Foreign
Rated PG-13
English, Bemba, Subtitled in English
“ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is a magically transcendent, cunningly funny, and arresting piece of cultural commentary that puts the inequalities of tradition against the warmth community can, still, on occasions, provide.” – RogerEbert.com
“Rungano Nyoni is one of the most exciting voices in cinema today and ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is abject proof: a disquieting, blistering examination of a family where social status trumps blood ties.” – Empire Magazine
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 Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
Directed by Rungano Nyoni | 2024 | Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland