Advance Screening: ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

Yale Film Society

Event time:

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 8:30pm to 10:10pm

Location:

Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) See map

320 York Street

New Haven, CT 06511

Join us for an advance screening of the new A24 film ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

Winner of Cannes Award for Un Certain Regard – Best Director

Date and time: Wednesday, February 26 at 8:30pm

Location: Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02
(320 York St, New Haven, CT 06511)

Free and open to the public!
(No registration required.)

Description: 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. From the director of I AM NOT A WITCH (2017).

2024 | Directed by Rungano Nyoni | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia
99 minutes | English and Bemba with English subtitles

Cosponsored by Yale Film Society and Yale Macmillan Council on African Studies

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