Writer/director Rungano Nyoni follows up her acclaimed debut
I Am Not a Witch
with On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The film, which features surrealist elements, revolves around the secrets
that emerge in a middle class Zambian family as they prepare for a
funeral.
Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela and
Henry B.J. Phiri star.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is in UK/ROI cinemas from December
6th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
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.
