When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Nyoni’s sophomore feature, released into theaters by A24 on March 7, depicts a family as they lay ...

"Why are they mourning Uncle Fred like he's some angel?" A24 has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film called On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the second feature made by the acclaimed African ...

Seven years ago, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni made international waves with “I Am Not a Witch,” a mysterious fable that mixed African rituals and folklore with modern-day troubles to tell the ...

We’re told not to speak ill of the dead, which is absolute nonsense. The only people concerned about this adage are those who are afraid to be spoken about when they die. “The evil that men do lives ...

Shula is driving home from a fancy dress party one night when she encounters an unusual sight in the middle of a country road: her Uncle Fred’s dead body. But Shula, portrayed by Susan Chardy, does ...

Rungano Nyoni won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her "I Am Not a Witch" follow-up. With her 2017 directorial debut “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni established herself as a ...

Our Call: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a powerful drama with a distinctively strong and original voice and vision. STREAM IT.

Rungano Nyoni made her name in 2017 with her Directors’ Fortnight entry I am Not a Witch, a surreal comedy of sorts in which a young Zambian girl named Shula is forced to choose between being turned ...

Walking down the sidewalk almost any late afternoon in the Pontchartrain Shores neighborhood of Metairie, you may catch an unusual sight: a man walking his hound dog — and three African guinea hens ...