Costume designer Estelle Don Banda tells IndieWire about why single costumes in 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' had to stand out.
The guinea fowl is a ubiquitous, henlike bird native to Africa, where it’s known for traveling in flocks and raising a noisy alarm when predators are nearby. In Rungano Nyoni’s scalding Cannes ...
Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals ...
The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one ...
Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s second feature starts with a dead body in the road. It ends with rage, righteousness, and a ...
Shula serves as our guide, her internal struggle—brilliantly captured by Chardy’s anguished calm—anchoring On Becoming a ...
The mile-a-minute banter and easy repartee between Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy, the Zambian British director and lead ...
It premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival and has already had a run in the U.K. "It's funny just how approachable everyone ... The elder women cry and wail and are cruel to Uncle Fred’s widow ...
RogerEbert.com spoke to writer-director Rungano Nyoni and star Susan Chardy over Zoom about the magnificence of the guinea ...
"Cinema is an art form that allows you to escape reality, or at least to look at it through different eyes," once said the Italian filmmaker Frederico Fellini.