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Cinema Club: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Cinema Club: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Cinema Club: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Dir. Rungano Nyoni
99 min
PG-13

March Cinema Club + Images of Africa

International Women's Day • Saturday, March 8 at 11:00am

Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Dr. Ramon A. Fonkoué, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, whose research focuses on subjectivity and collective memory in literature and film in Africa and its diaspora.

Cinema Club screenings are Free for MSP Film Society Members. Not a Member? Join here. More info on Cinema Club here.

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ABOUT THE FILM

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. 

ABOUT IMAGES OF AFRICA

A screening series celebrating Minnesota's African Diaspora community through the lens of international cinema. Images of Africa is presented by MSP Film and is funded in part by MN Humanities Center with with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

Film Details

Programs: Cinema Club, Images of Africa
Film Type: Fiction Feature
Release Year: 2024
Runtime: 99 min
Country/Region: Zambia, United Kingdom, USA, Ireland
Rating: PG-13
Language: English, Bemba
Print Source: A24
Tags: Drama, Dramedy, Women Directors, Women's Rights

Cast/Crew

Director: Rungano Nyoni
Producer: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Tim Cole
Cinematographer: David Gallego
Screenwriter: Rungano Nyoni
Editor: Nathan Nugent
Composer: Lucrecia Dalt
Principal Cast: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri