Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not only a stunning piece of art, but a stirring, scathing call to break the ...

Shula serves as our guide, her internal struggle—brilliantly captured by Chardy’s anguished calm—anchoring On Becoming a ...

In On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, filmmaker Rungano Nyoni weaves a surreal drama about defiance in the face of ritual, and the ...

The second feature of writer-director Rungano Nyoni ("I Am Not a Witch") shows her developing strongly with a story graced by ...

The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one ...

The A24 flick strands audiences between realistic and speculative storytelling as a family copes with a complicated death.

RogerEbert.com spoke to writer-director Rungano Nyoni and star Susan Chardy over Zoom about the magnificence of the guinea ...

Few things are as dangerous as familial cultures of silence around the perpetuation of abuse. Of course, it's common for ...

The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie.

Family traveling from near and far converge upon one person's house for several days of mourning, including Shula's grief-stricken mother (Doris Naulapwa). Most of these characters don't stand out ...