Join us for an advance screening of the new A24 film ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Winner of Cannes Award for Un Certain Regard – Best Director
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.
From the director of I AM NOT A WITCH (2017). 2024 | Directed by Rungano Nyoni | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia 99 minutes | English and Bemba with English subtitles
Cosponsored by Yale Film Society and Yale Macmillan Council on African Studies
