Episode 129: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (2025)

Happy Black History Month and happy anniversary to us! 🖤🖤🖤 This month we're giving a spotlight to Black female directors, starting with Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming A Guinea Fowl (2025), a film that explores family secrets and complicit silence against the backdrop of a funeral. In this episode, we talk grief as a performance, women who protect bad men, and the shared experiences of family gatherings across the diaspora.

Rungano Nyoni: “Trauma is minding your business and then there’s a body lying next to you” | A Rabbit's Foot: More Than Rage: Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy on “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” | Roger Ebert: Our recommendations: Monsoon Wedding (2001) Support the show with a Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/blackgirlfilmclub Check out the rest of our socials at linktr.ee/blackgirlfilmclub