On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
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Director: Rungano Nyoni Run Time: 95 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2024 Language: English and Bemba with English subtitles
Starring: Blessings Bhamjee, Doris Naulapwa, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini, Susan Chardy
Screenwriter: Rungano Nyoni
Producer: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Tim Cole
Join us in the MUBI Microcinema for a limited run of Rungano Nyoni’s 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.
“This is a poetic-realist vision with grace notes of wit and surrealism.” – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“Nyoni’s embrace of the absurd, as well as her seamless use of symbolic references and the depiction of traditional rituals, showcase her impressive storytelling talent.” – Odie Henderson, Boston Globe