As part of its monthly film screening series, Cinema Art Bethesda is pleased to present a 2024 film by Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni. Bagels, coffee, and tea are provided. An informal discussion will follow.

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is 1 hour 39 minutes long and is in English and Bemba with English subtitles. This film rated PG-13.