PMA Films: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

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.

Running Time: 99 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Language: Bemba and English with English subtitles
Country of origin: Zambia, United Kingdom, Ireland
Director: Rungano Nyoni

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