The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...

In Rungano Nyoni’s entrancing, moody family drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” a young woman (Susan ... a middle-class Zambian or conversant in African tribal funerary customs to be caught ...

Most people who see the Zambian British director Rungano Nyoni’s extraordinary new film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” will not ... “I am found in Africa. I can live to about twenty years ...

Guinea Fowl debuted at Cannes, like Nyoni's 2017 feature, I Am Not a Witch.That film catapulted Nyoni into the rare status of rising British auteur. The buzz, she says, critically, was in part ...

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” which arrives in theaters Friday, doubles down on her artistic vision, further solidifying Nyoni as one of the preeminent voices of today’s African cinem ...

Susan Chardy plays Shula in "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl." Credit: Chibesa Mulumba / A24 The second feature by Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a brilliantly wry ...

The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...

After a seven-year absence, British-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni has returned to feature filmmaking with her surreal and darkly funny sophomore effort On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Set in the ...