Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the second feature from Zambian-Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni, has been picked up by A24 for ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

The Zambian-British filmmaker builds on the considerable promise of her 2017 debut 'I Am Not a Witch' with this story of retributive anger fighting patriarchal tradition at an abuser's funeral. Her ...

Rungano Nyoni was grieving. Her grandmother had died, and her great uncle had issued an edict that the funeral not feature the wailing and singing and house visits of typical Zambian mourning. Instead ...

Nyoni, the Lusaka-born, Wales-raised Zambian director told IndieWire, "The whole film is an expression of myself," channeled by first-time actor Chardy who related to her character "because no one was ...

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 ...

Rungano Nyoni is a Zambian-Welsh director and screenwriter. She is known for the film I Am Not a Witch (2017), which she wrote and directed. The film won Nyoni the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut in 2018 ...