On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle.
Where to watch: Streaming on HBO Max.
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.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, directed by Rungano Nyoni, had various release dates, premiering at Cannes in 2024, getting a UK cinema release on December 6, 2024, a US theatrical release on March 7, 2025, and streaming on Max (as A24) starting July 7, 2025