- Year: 2024
- Running time: 1h 39m
- Rated: PG-13
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- US release: 7 March 2025
- Premiere: 16 May 2024
- IMDb
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Directed by Rungano Nyoni
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.
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
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Studios: a24, BBC Film, Element Pictures, Fremantle
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