While traveling along a deserted road, Shula comes across a lifeless body. It’s her uncle Fred – but the young woman’s response to his death is almost suspiciously calm. Not so the rest of her family, however. The tensions resulting from the frenetic preparations for the wake and funeral open old wounds that nobody has dared to speak of for years. The second film by director Rungano Nyoni, whose debut I Am Not a Witch (2017) was a festival hit after its Cannes release, again returns to Zambia, where the magical mixes with the real and the traditional with the modern.
Anna Kořínek
95 min / Color, DCP
Director Rungano Nyoni
/ Screenplay Rungano Nyoni
/ Dir. of Photography David Gallego
/ Editor Nathan Nugent
/ Art Director Malin Lindholm
/ Producer Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Tim Cole
/ Production Element Pictures
/ Coproduction A24, Fremantle, BBC Film
/ Cast Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela
/ Sales A24
Rungano Nyoni (1982, Lusaka, Zambia). Selected filmography: Listen (Kuuntele, 2014, short, co-dir.), I Am Not a Witch (2017), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024).
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