On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Regular $15/ $11 Matinee
Member $11/ $6 Matinee
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Rungano NyoniProducer
Tim Cole, Ed Guiney, Andrew LoweCast
Susan Chardy, Maggie MulubwaCountry
United Kingdom, Zambia, Ireland, United StatesRuntime
99 minAccessibility
Opens March 21!
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.
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