Rungano Nyoni

Oct 2, 2024 | a24films.com | Rungano Nyoni

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

May 28, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Mohammad Rasoulof |Sean Baker |Rungano Nyoni

This was our fifth year at the most influential and prestigious film festival in the world. We provided our avid readers with in-depth coverage of the two main competitive strands (the Official Competition and Un Certain Regard), as well as some insight into the remaining sections (Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week, Special Screenings, etc). In total, we published a whopping 51 reviews over the course of 12 days.

May 25, 2024 | vulture.com | Rungano Nyoni |Alejandra Gularte

Barbie’s mastermind Greta Gerwig has been bopping around this year’s Cannes Film Festival as the jury president, leading the charge on which movie would be crowned the Palme d’Or this evening. Francis Ford Coppola’s fever dream Megalopolis, Yorgos Lanthimos’s twistedKinds of Kindness, and the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice are among the 22 contenders for the coveted award.

May 20, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Hu Guan |Oliver Stone |Rungano Nyoni

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNESEduard Limonov (Ben Whishaw) is born “somewhere in the Soviet Union” and grows up between Moscow and Kharkiv (the same one on the headlines of the Ukraine War). He becomes a radical writer, poet and lover. His views of the world are deeply pessimistic, and he possesses an inherent antipathy of all human beings.

May 19, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Rungano Nyoni

A lowly driver finds the body of her deceased uncle lying on the road. Her father, an energetic and boisterous man, is happy to hear her concerns, as long as she gives him a fiscal donation. Then there are two of her cousins, drowning themselves in the windmills of memory, their bodies receding to the internal wounds. This is the ground from which On Becoming a Guinea Fowl flourishes, fleshing out a Zambian family drama in crystalline, cabalistic strokes.