Nyoni’s brilliance is in portraying the gap between public and private, past and present, as spaces where submerged feelings awkwardly co-exist, leaving nobody able to feel truly whole.

Rungano Nyoni’s latest film “On Becoming A Guinea Fowl” puts family secrets in the spotlight in a searing tale of abuse. “I’ve got worse stories to tell,” she tells CNN.

Unspooling in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar — though more worthy of a spot in the main Competition, the section Nyoni served as a juror last year — “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl ...

Rungano Nyoni made her name in 2017 with her Directors’ Fortnight entry I am Not a Witch, a surreal comedy of sorts in which a young Zambian girl named Shula is forced to choose between being ...

When A24 came aboard to distribute Rungano Nyoni’s latest film, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” the director was a little wary. “A24 is such a brand — and brands always frighten me,” she ...

As in “Bird,” the female protagonist in Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” has a near-mystical connection with the natural world that suggests that women — like all the ...

Rungano Nyoni's 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' has been picked up by A24 ahead of its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival next month.

But a quivering collective fury scalds through the silence in Rungano Nyoni’s tremendous new film “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” — as a group of young women, nursing the scars of sexual abuse ...