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  • Comedy, Drama

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

  • 2025
  • 1 HR, 39 min
  • APR 4 → APR 17
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Released 2025, Zambia, UK, Ireland
Comedy, Drama
1 hour, 39 minutes
A24
Bemba and English with English Subtitles
Starring
  • Susan Chardy
  • Elizabeth Chisela
  • Henry B.J. Phiri
Director

Rungano Nyoni

Film Information

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.

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Full Cast
Susan Chardy
Elizabeth Chisela
Henry B.J. Phiri
Additional Credits
Rungano Nyoni Director
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Reviews

“Nyoni’s brilliance is in portraying the gap between public and private, past and present, as spaces where submerged feelings awkwardly co-exist, leaving nobody able to feel truly whole.”

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times

“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.”

Kambole Campbell
Empire Magazine

“‘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.”

Robert Daniels
RogerEbert.com

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