On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

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Genre

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Release Year

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Director

Rungano Nyoni

Producer

Tim Cole, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe

Cast

Susan Chardy, Maggie Mulubwa

Country

United Kingdom, Zambia, Ireland, United States

Runtime

99 min

Accessibility

Limited Mobility Access
Assistive-Listening-Systems
Audio Description
Closed Captioning

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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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