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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Rungano Nyoni Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images. After a seven-year absence, British-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni has returned to feature filmmaking with her surreal and darkly ...

"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 ...

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 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 ...

Costume designer Estelle Don Banda tells IndieWire about the film's Missy Elliott tribute and about making one key look count for each character in Rungano Nyoni's new film. A number of uncanny things ...

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 ...

Shiori Itō's 'Black Box Diaries' won Zurich's audience award in addition to the documentary film prize. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl has won top ...

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 ...