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.
Credits
Original Title
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Title
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Directed by
Rungano Nyoni
Country
Zambia
Year
2024
Screenplay
Rungano Nyoni
Film Editing
Nathan Nugent
Soundtrack
Lucrecia Dalt
Cinematography
David Gallego
Sound
Olivier Dandré
Production Design
Malin Lindholm
Runtime
95 min.
Cast
Elizabeth Chisela (Nsansa), Susan Chardy (Shula), Henry B.J. Phiri (Dad)