Quick Take Vulturine guinea fowl’s blue and white plumage comes from feather structure, not pigments, creating vivid, long-distance visual signals. Bright colors and high-contrast patterns help ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Nyoni’s sophomore feature, released into theaters by A24 on March 7, depicts a family as they lay ...

More than one-third of all women and girls in Zambia have experienced physical violence in their lives, and 17% of these women have experienced sexual violence. This is an issue that plagues the ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

The vulturine guinea fowl’s electric blue feathers are not pigments. Scientists reveal how microscopic structures manipulate ...

Rungano Nyoni Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images. After a seven-year absence, British-Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni has returned to feature filmmaking with her surreal and darkly ...

Shula is dressed Missy Elliott in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Credit: A24 Uncle Fred has died. He died in the street across the way from a brothel in the middle of the night. Shula, Fred’s niece, is on ...

"Why are they mourning Uncle Fred like he's some angel?" A24 has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film called On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the second feature made by the acclaimed African ...

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl stars Susan Chardy as Shula, a Zambian woman who discovers the body of her dead Uncle Fred lying in the road late one night. As the family convenes for the morning rituals, ...

Rungano Nyoni made her name in 2017 with her Directors’ Fortnight entry I am Not a Witch, a surreal comedy of sorts in which a young Zambian girl named Shula is forced to choose between being turned ...

Rungano Nyoni won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her "I Am Not a Witch" follow-up. With her 2017 directorial debut “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni established herself as a ...

The Zambian-British filmmaker builds on the considerable promise of her 2017 debut 'I Am Not a Witch' with this story of retributive anger fighting patriarchal tradition at an abuser's funeral. Her ...