{"id":3904,"date":"2025-10-08T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrikamera.de\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:47:06","slug":"on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrikamera.de\/en\/films-2025\/thursday-nov-13-2025\/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl\/","title":{"rendered":"ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rungano Nyoni
Zambia\/ United Kingdom\/ Ireland 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 95 min

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One should speak no ill of the dead\u2014in ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL this unwritten rule is put to the test by Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni.
Shula has only recently returned to her Zambian homeland after a long absence. One late evening, while driving home from a costume party, she finds a body lying on the road\u2014it is her 50-year-old Uncle Fred.
As preparations for the multi-day funeral ceremony begin, she and her cousins gradually uncover the family\u2019s hidden secrets, the ones their aunts would have preferred to bury along with Uncle Fred\u2014Fred was a serial sexual offender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is a portrait of Zambia\u2019s matriarchal society, vividly depicting the lasting trauma of sexual abuse and intergenerational estrangement. Shifting between pitch-black comedy and poignant drama, the film was awarded Best Director in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes and won the Golden Eye for Best Feature Film at the Z\u00fcrich Film Festival. Rungano Nyoni previously appeared at AFRIKAMERA with her acclaimed feature film I AM NOT A WITCH in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RUNGANO NYONI<\/strong> was born in 1982 in Lusaka, Zambia, and emigrated as a child with her parents to Wales. She studied at the University of the Arts in London and now lives in Lisbon. Her short films THE LIST and MWANSA THE GREAT achieved significant success at international film festivals and received BAFTA nominations. Her short film LISTEN was nominated for the European Film Award in 2015 and won Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Rungano\u2019s feature debut, I AM NOT A WITCH, tells the story of an eight-year-old girl sent to a witch camp. The film premiered at Cannes and received numerous international nominations. In 2018, Rungano won a BAFTA for this remarkable debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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20:00 CITY KINO WEDDING |
\nRungano Nyoni |
\nZambia\/ United Kingdom\/ Ireland 2024 | Original version with English subtitles I 95 min | <\/p>\n

One should speak no ill of the dead\u2014in ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL this unwritten rule is put to the test by Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni.
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