On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is currently streaming on HBO Max

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)98 minComedy, DramaRating 63/100

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.

Cast: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini, Blessings Bhamjee, Doris Naulapwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Roy Chisha

Director: Rungano Nyoni