ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

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While driving back home from a friend’s costume party, Shula finds her uncle’s dead body in the middle of the road. The untimely loss brings her extended family together for the funeral proceedings and the reading of the will, and–as the most mature and level-headed among them–Shula is burdened with managing and mediating her quarrelsome cast of relatives.

Amid the grief and chaos, long-buried secrets are brought to light, leaving Shula and her family to reckon with uncomfortable truths and the misdeeds of the recently deceased. In this fast-paced portrayal of fraught familial dynamics and personal trauma, writer and director Rungano Nyoni uses a middle-class Zambian family’s confronting of the past to tell a more remarkable tale about the tension between cultural conservatism and our increasingly progressing society.

Closed Captions are available for this screening and assistive devices are available upon request. The on stage presentations will include ASL interpretation. For more information or to request an accommodation, visit VAFF Accessibility.

Date

Thu, Oct 31, 2024

Time

5:30 PM

Location

Violet Crown 6 & 7

Film Info

Director: Rungano Nyoni

Runtime: 99 min.

Year: 2024

Country: Zambia, Ireland, UK

Language: Bemba, English

Subtitles: Yes.

Featuring: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri