CNN —The final, searing shot of Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a convergence of everything that’s come before.
Nyoni’s first movie “I Am Not A Witch” broke through at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and won her a BAFTA.
Like her debut, a satire on the practice of witch camps, also set in Zambia, the country of Nyoni’s birth, “Guinea Fowl” deals with injustice in tragicomic fashion.
The idea came from a scrapped plotline for Nyoni’s previous film, she told CNN, in an interview during the festival.
How do you not get up and just set everything on fire?”Writer-director Rungano Nyoni during the production of "On Becoming A Guinea Fowl."
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CNN, Cannes Film, BAFTA, Zambian, Cannes, Getty
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Guinea, Zambia, Zambian British, Wales, AFP