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Film

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (12A)

12A
  • 2024
  • 1h 35m
  • Wales

Attributes

  • Directed by Rungano Nyoni
  • Origin Wales
  • Year 2024
  • Duration 1h 35m
  • Certificate 12A
  • Type Film

English and Bemba with English subtitles

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. Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni brings a dark, surreal humour and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

Trailers & clips

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Watch a discussion between filmmaker Liana Stewart and curator Yvonne Connikie, talking about Black Welsh talent in film and their responses to Rungano Nyoni’s new film

Read Cameroon-born Wales-based writer, poet, and playwright Eric Ngalle Charles’ piece about the film in Buzz Magazine.

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