ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Rungano Nyoni
- 95 minutes
- 2024
- English and Bemba with English subtitles
- 5pm and 7:30pm Saturday April 5
- 5pm and 7:30pm Sunday April 6
- 2:30pm and 5pm
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Friday April 4
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. 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. Darkly comedic, beautiful and surprising, and one of the most highly acclaimed films of the year.
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