ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is Now Available to Watch at Home

“A SEARING FABLE ABOUT SECRETS AND SUPPRESSION”

(The Washington Post)

Rungano Nyoni's surreal and entrancing ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is Now Available to Watch at Home.

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.

STARRING

Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, and Henry B.J. Phiri

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY

Rungano Nyoni