On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
By Su Silver March 10, 2025

Director Rungano Nyoni creates a rich and intriguing world that reveals a fraught family drama through the lens of a specific community.
Director Rungano Nyoni creates a rich and intriguing world that reveals a fraught family drama through the lens of a specific community.
The tense thriller explores the hidden truths beneath the surface of a seemingly placid, affluent family.
To Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the world is full of dangers. People constantly need berating, and everyone and everything seems to conspire against her.
The boisterous Italian-American Balsano family gathers for what may be their final Christmas Eve dinner in the suburban ancestral home.
A lyrical, bittersweet, and sometimes brutal flight of fancy set amid the overpasses and dingy council estates of lower-class Broken Britain.
An allegorical family drama and a cat-and-mouse thriller by the exiled Mohammad Rasoulof.
The emotionally charged Bangladeshi mother-daughter drama marks the strong debut of director Maksud Hossain.
A slice of life about the universal struggles of being a parent, having one, and reconciling vastly different experiences.
Melancholy and stoic in its worldview, and deliberate in its pace, this Hong Kong film drama packs a surprising punch.