On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Sunday, June 8

Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm and 5pm
Discussion following the 2pm show

Ireland/UK/US/Zambia, Comedy-Drama, 1 hour 35 min., English/Bemba, rated PG-13
Directed by Rungano Nyon

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.

Highlights:

• 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
• “Universal Acclaim” rating on MetaCritic
• 7 award wins, 12 award nominations including the British Independent Film Awards and Cannes

“Rungano Nyoni is one of the most exciting voices in cinema today and On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is abject proof: a disquieting, blistering examination of a family where social status trumps blood ties ” — Empire Magazine

“Nyoni, director of the much-admired I Am Not a Witch, nudges her characters towards increasingly grim revelations but tempers that strain with a feisty zest of absurdity. Nyoni deserved her [Cannes] Un Certain Regard best-director prize.” — Irish Times