Event Info
Date and time
| Sunday 12 October 2025 | 5-7pm |
A Night Celebrating Female Directors
🎬 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Director: Rungano Nyoni • Year: 2024 • Runtime: 99 mins
Country: Zambia • Language: Bemba (with English subtitles)
Rating: M
Dark comedy meets surrealist invention in this Cannes-winning film, as family secrets collide with the rituals of grief.
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 are forced to confront the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
⚠️ Contains indirect references to sexual abuse
Plus Short Film
I’m The Most Racist Person I Know
Director: Suriyna Sivashanker • Year: 2024 • Runtime: 13 mins • Country: Australia
When Lali unexpectedly goes on a date with another woman-of-colour, long-ignored prejudices unravel.
Screening Details
📅 Sunday, 12 October 2025
🕠 Doors open: 4:30 pm | 🎞 Screening starts: 5:00 pm
📍 Araluen Arts Centre Theatre
Tonight proudly showcases two fearless female directors — Rungano Nyoni and Suriyna Sivashanker — each bringing real, uncompromising but gentle stories to the screen.