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ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

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  • Thu, Jan 29

Director: Rungano Nyoni Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2024

Starring: Blessings Bhamjee, Doris Naulapwa, Elizabeth Chisela, Esther Singini, Susan Chardy

Presented by Britt Sankofa

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.

BRITT SANKOFA is a filmmaker, writer, and artist from Washington DC. Her works have been featured in the SAAM ‘Women Filmmakers Festival” (2019), Virginia Film Festival (2018), Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival (2019), and the Afrikana Independent Film Festival (2017, 2019). Britt has a huge passion for black history and cinema and works towards building
relationships between the two.

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