Rungano Nyoni won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her "I Am Not a Witch" follow-up. With her 2017 directorial debut “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni established herself as a ...

In 'I Am Not a Witch' director Rungano Nyoni's second feature, produced by A24, the death of a problematic uncle instigates domestic turmoil. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic The body lays prone ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Re: the title On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (now streaming on HBO Max). The animal, a pheasant-like sub-Saharan African bird, has a distinct call that alerts anything within ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

A guinea fowl’s cry serves as nature’s warning of an imminent predatory threat — but what happens when that blaring alarm is ignored? What if it is ignored for the sake of the very tradition that ...

The final, searing shot of Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a convergence of everything that’s come before. The film, about a sudden death and family secrets in Zambia, comes to a ...

Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the guinea fowl is a communal bird that doubles as a guard animal. Whenever a predator is nearby, guinea fowl begin to chirp in cooperation with other guinea fowl to ...

We’re told not to speak ill of the dead, which is absolute nonsense. The only people concerned about this adage are those who are afraid to be spoken about when they die. “The evil that men do lives ...

The Zambian-British filmmaker builds on the considerable promise of her 2017 debut 'I Am Not a Witch' with this story of retributive anger fighting patriarchal tradition at an abuser's funeral. It is ...

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