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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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You should watch the surreal new movie On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. It opens with a Zambian woman finding her uncle's body on the road. His death brings the family together from near and far, but also resurfaces old wounds — wounds the elders would much rather ignore. It's a powerful story about the silence that keeps families from breaking, but only in superficial ways, and with devastating consequences.

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The surreal new movie, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, opens with a woman finding her

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uncle's body on the road. His death brings the family together from near and far, but also

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resurfaces old wounds. Wounds the elders would much rather ignore.

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It's a powerful story about the silence that keeps families from breaking,

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but only in superficial ways and with devastating consequences.

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