Shula is dressed Missy Elliott in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Credit: A24 Uncle Fred has died. He died in the street across the way from a brothel in the middle of the night. Shula, Fred’s niece, is on ...

A24’s films On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Opus, and Death of a Unicorn will debut on HBO and be available to stream exclusively on Max in the U.S. this July. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl will be available ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wherever it takes place, whoever’s life has ended, a funeral is a kind of collective memory bank. No two memories of the deceased, ...

Uncle Fred is dead. That’s how Shula finds him, flat on his back in the middle of the road at night, no sign of a struggle or an accident. But Shula’s unwillingness to get out of the car isn’t just ...

The Zambian-British filmmaker builds on the considerable promise of her 2017 debut 'I Am Not a Witch' with this story of retributive anger fighting patriarchal tradition at an abuser's funeral. Her ...

The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie. Rungano ...

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not the first film about family secrets coming to light through grief, but it may be the most ...

Content warning: This article contains references to sexual violence. In an interview with Le Cinéma Club, Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni said her film “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (2024) does ...

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 ...