ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
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Late at night, on her way home from a masquerade costume party, Shula drives along a deserted road and discovers her uncle dead on the ground. As preparations for the funeral ceremony get underway, she and her cousins gradually uncover the family's hidden secrets, while her aunts would have preferred to bury them with Uncle Fred. In the feature film ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL, oscillating between comedy and social drama, Rungano Nyoni delivers a bitterly angry reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves, breaking several taboos in the process. The film was awarded the prize for best director in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
In Kooperation mit:
Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Direction: Rungano Nyoni, DCP, OmeU, 95 min
Guest
Rungano Nyoni is a director and screenwriter who first gained recognition with her early short films, including THE LIST (2009), which won a BAFTA Cymru Award, and MWANSA THE GREAT (2011), which was BAFTA-nominated and selected for over 100 international film festivals. Her debut feature, I AM NOT A WITCH (2017), won her the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer and the Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), where she also won Best Director. Her follow-up, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (2024), premiered at Cannes, where it received the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Director. She went on to win Best Director at BIFA once again—making her a two-time recipient of the award for both of her feature films.