Nyoni, the Lusaka-born, Wales-raised Zambian director told IndieWire, "The whole film is an expression of myself," channeled ...

It’s a film from Zambia, in Bemba! It’s mind-boggling! Susan Chardy: I was lucky to go to the New York Film Festival. People there got the film and asked really great questions. I hope other ...

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks this respectful ...

A24 and Rungano Nyoni’s latest film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” hits screens in the United States on March 7, having ...

Costume designer Estelle Don Banda tells IndieWire about the film's Missy Elliott tribute and about making one key look count ...

This is the opening scene of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comedic, stylish and hauntingly bizarre ...

Rungano Nyoni’s second film takes place at a family funeral in Zambia, where open secrets bubble to the surface.

Wherever it takes place, whoever’s life has ended, a funeral is a kind of collective memory bank. No two memories of the deceased, spoken or unspoken, work the same way. But a person’s life, and its ...

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

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

But Shula, portrayed by Susan Chardy, does not behave in a way that we would expect. She doesn’t cry out in horror or appear ...

The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy ...