The London Film Festival is the perfect chance for those of us who aren’t regular attendees of Venice, Cannes, or TIFF, to catch up on a wealth of cinema, as the BFI picks from a well-acclaimed crop of the year’s prior festivals. With the BFI’s announcement of the lineup for their 68th festival, this year is no exception.
Rungano Nyoni first made waves in 2017 with her debut feature I Am Not A Witch, a superb feat of magical realism demonstrating the violent truth of superstition in Zambia. Nyoni has now returned to the festival circuit with her second feature film On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, in which a death in the family brings to light difficult truths, promising to be equally dark and bedazzling as her debut.
