There’s nothing like starting a movie with a running gag, and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl kicks off with a beauty. A young woman Shula (Susan Chardy) is driving home late at night.

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 ...

Shula is driving home from a fancy dress party one night when she encounters an unusual sight in the middle of a country road: her Uncle Fred’s dead body. But Shula, portrayed by Susan Chardy ...