On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

"Nyoni nudges her characters towards increasingly grim revelations but tempers that strain with a feisty zest of absurdity. Nyoni deserved her best-director prize" 

"Tremendous new film (...) This is palpably new, future-minded filmmaking, at once intrepidly daring and rigorously poised" 

"Perhaps what’s most impressive about 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' is Nyoni’s respect for subtext. Her film doesn’t aim to be a guide, a balm or an ode to forgiveness (...) She reaches for honesty, and what she uncovers is at once disquieting and deeply absorbing" 

"A slow-burn drama builds, rather stealthily, to an unexpectedly emotional climax" 

"A searing Zambian Drama (...) Rungano Nyoni’s lucid and incandescently furious" 

"The second film from Rungano Nyoni, 'On Becoming A Guinea Fowl' is a formally daring picture that blends fantasy, stylised drama and elements of black comedy to explore the societal pressures that rewrite the truth" 

" A disquieting, blistering examination of a family where social status trumps blood ties (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"