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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #121. Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Stephan Vanfleteren

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #121. Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Published on January 11, 2023

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni next project following her 2017 debut — I Am Not A Witch. Nyoni made a name for herself on her short film output and she had received support from the 2013 Cannes Cinefondation Residency. We only received snip-its of info last year, put crew folk would include David Gallego as the cinematographer on the project, Malin Lindholm is the Production Designer and producers include Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures. Did production begin? We believe it did in the month of October. Deets still need to come in.

Gist: Unknown.

Release Date/Prediction: If production took place last year then we could see this drop in 2023. We would not bet on it.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Current top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson).