Film: "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" (2025)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 9:30–11:10 PM
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- DescriptionNew at the BrowningDirected by Rungano NyoniWith Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. PhiriRated PG-13, 99 minutes, DCPIn English and Bemba with English subtitlesOn 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
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