Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s second feature starts with a dead body in the road. It ends with rage, righteousness, and a reminder that it takes a village to keep a secret ...

Though people may complain about guinea fowl being loud, there are many advantages of keeping guinea fowl on your property. Guinea fowl have an almost prehistoric appearance compared to chickens ...

The A24 flick strands audiences between realistic and speculative storytelling as a family copes with a complicated death.

being lectured about the animal world. It’s not until we nearly reach the end of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl that we learn a certain characteristic regarding this native, chicken-like creature.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks this respectful ...

Few things are as dangerous as familial cultures of silence around the perpetuation of abuse. Of course, it's common for ...

When we first meet Shula (Susan Chardy), the quietly unbending protagonist of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” she is driving home from a fancy-dress party, wearing dark shades, a gleaming metal ...

“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not the first film about family secrets coming to light through grief, but it may be the most original. Rungano Nyoni’s amazing film — she wrote and directed ...

But a person’s life, and its ripple effects, have a way of lingering. Delicate but fierce, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is the second feature from the Zambian-born, Welsh-raised writer ...

Animal rights group says they are concerned a proposed game fowl farm bill is intentionally deceptive and vague. Credit: Clément Bardot The state Legislature is set to consider a bill that a ...

In Rungano Nyoni’s entrancing, moody family drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” a young woman (Susan Chardy) returns home to navigate rituals of mourning for a deceased uncle — formalities ...

The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie.