ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
synopsis
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.
international title: | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl |
original title: | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl |
country: | United Kingdom, Zambia, Ireland |
sales agent: | A24 (US) |
year: | 2024 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Rungano Nyoni |
film run: | 95' |
screenplay: | Rungano Nyoni |
cast: | Susan Chardy, Henry B.J. Phiri, Elizabeth Chisela |
cinematography by: | David Gallego |
film editing: | Nathan Nugent |
art director: | Malin Lindholm |
music: | Lucrecia Dalt |
producer: | Tim Cole, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe |
co-producer: | Gabriel Gauchet |
executive producer: | Eva Yates |
production: | BBC Films, Element Pictures, A24 (US) |