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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) is a comedy drama film written and directed by Zambian filmmaker, Rungano Nyoni. The film won the Un Certain Regard section at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2024.i and developed by BBC Film and Element Pictures. It was financed by A24 alongside BBC Film and Fremantle. Rungano won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes for Best Director. It tells the story of Shula who finds her uncle’s corpse on an empty road in the middle of the night. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family. The film currently has 100% rating based on 17 critics’ reviews on the review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes