On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

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.

Open Caption screening 4/1

Runtime
1h 40m
Year
2025
Director
Rungano Nyoni
Format
DPC
Country
Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Language
English, Bemba
First Showing
March 28, 2025