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With her second feature film, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni looks at the pain, memory, and absurdity of familial Zambian tradition. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl follows Shula (Susan Chardy), who finds her uncle dead in the middle of the road one night. Shula and her cousin Nsansa (Elizabeth Chisela) spend the first minutes of Nyoni’s film in a car, waiting for the night to end and police to arrive. Her uncle is wearing a sumo suit and has been found near the town’s brothel, making him to be a neighborhood clown acting without restraint or limitation.

Shula’s soon being visited by several aunts who plead she come to the house to mourn her uncle’s death, admonishing her for a lack of emotion. Each aunt seems to have had a serious connection to their now-dead brother, who we learn has sexually abused many of the young women in the family.

Die Goldenen Augen für den besten Spiel- bzw. besten Dokumentarfilm des 20. Zurich Film Festival gehen an „On Becoming a Guinea Fowl“ von Rungano Nyoni und „Black Box Diaries“ von Shiori Itō. Letztgenannter gewann auch den Publikumspreis.

„On Becoming a Guinea Fowl“ von Rungano Nyoni (Credit: Trigon-Film)

„On Becoming a Guinea Fowl“ von Rungano Nyoni hat das Goldene Auge des Spielfilmwettbewerbs des 20. Zurich Film Festival gewonnen. Der Film der sambisch-walisische Regisseurin feierte Weltpremiere in der Cannes-Reihe Un Certrain Regard und brachte Nyoni dort bereits den Preis für die beste Regie ein. Die surreale, dramatische Komödie kreist um Shula, die auf einer verlassenen Straße auf den Leichnam ihres Onkels stößt. Als die Vorbereitungen für die Beerdigung anlaufen, bringen sie und ihre Cousins die dunklen Geheimnisse der Mittelstandsfamilie aus Sambia ans Licht. Jurypräsident Lee Daniels sagte über seine Erfahrung im Kreise seiner Jury-Kolleg:innen: „Ich habe im unabhängigen Kino angefangen und es fühlt sich an,...

The upcoming most anticipated project of the Dragon Ball universe, Dragon Ball Daima, has recently dropped a new trailer, and it is getting a lot of love from fans. The exciting trailer features a lot of new information about the upcoming story and its characters, as the series is only a month away from its release, which is scheduled for October.

Dragon Ball Daima | Credit: Toei Animation

While this trailer has re-ignited the eagerness of the fans for Dragon Ball Daima, it has also included multiple references that the series has made from the original narrative that was created by Akira Toriyama years ago. One of these references is the Demon Realm, which has been part of the series since it was first created.

Demon Realm was an interesting concept for a long time, but as the story progressed, it lost its importance, and fans eventually forgot about it. However,...

The Sundance Now original Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale is a story set in the modern day where witches live amongst ordinary people. Sarah and her daughter Harper live in a town called “Sanctuary,” where for years now, witches have been helping the ordinary in whatever way possible, with some rules in place. Sarah has a coven of four friends from the town, and she has occasionally bent the rules for them. She’s always thought of them as her dear friends and never imagined it would be problematic for her in the future. However, after a tragic incident takes place and one of her friends loses her son, she starts to blame Sarah and her daughter for his death. Things were already terrible for Sarah, but in episode 6, we really get to see the things she did come back to bite her even though she did them out of the kindness of her heart.