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.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a reckoning, and Nyoni proves to be a force as a filmmaker.
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Claudia Puig
RTFilmWeek (LAist)May 9, 2025
It feels so specific and also universal, which are my favorite kinds of movies.
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Dwight Brown
RTDwightBrownInk.comApr 20, 2025
Gets more thoughtful and empowering by the minute. A modern fable. A fable that’s a treasure.
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Marlon Wallace
RTThe M Report (WBOC.com)Dec 23, 2025
It's also about how difficult it is for a woman or anyone to dissent or try to push back. It's reminiscent of a recent Oscar nominee in Best Documentary Feature, To Kill a Tiger (2023), which had an arguably happier ending than this one.