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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
When she comes across her uncle’s dead body in the middle of the road, Shula (Susan Chardy) is resolutely unmoved. As the older women of her middle-class Zambian family busy themselves with the ornate funeral proceedings, Shula and her cousins instead exorcise the long-buried secrets around their uncle’s predatory behavior. The long-awaited sophomore follow-up from BAFTA award-winning director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is an arresting and surreal commentary on the consequences of silence.
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