UW Cinematheque - Madison Premieres!
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Zambia, UK, Ireland | 2024 | DCP | 99 min. | Bemba with English subtitles Director: Rungano Nyoni
Event Details
Date
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri
Driving home late at night, Shula discovers a dead body on the road—her uncle’s. Her eerily unfazed reaction puts her at odds with the elaborate Zambian funeral traditions carried out by her aunts. As long-buried family secrets come to light, a generational reckoning emerges. Rungano Nyoni’s gripping and evocative followup to I Am Not a Witch (WFF 2018) earned a Best Director prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. (MK)
Driving home late at night, Shula discovers a dead body on the road—her uncle’s. Her eerily unfazed reaction puts her at odds with the elaborate Zambian funeral traditions carried out by her aunts. As long-buried family secrets come to light, a generational reckoning emerges. Rungano Nyoni’s gripping and evocative followup to I Am Not a Witch (WFF 2018) earned a Best Director prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. (MK)
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Thursday, February 6, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.