The Prince Charles Cinema

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

  • 2024
  • 95mins
  • Ireland, UK, USA, Zambia
  • (15)
  • Comedy / Drama
Directed by Rungano Nyoni Starring Susan Chardy, Roy Chisha, Blessings Bhamjee, Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri

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.

Thursday 2nd January