Rungano Nyoni's second feature opens with Shula finding her uncle's body on an empty Zambian road at night, then follows her middle-class family's funeral rites as they surface a buried secret, and won Nyoni the Best Director prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2024, jointly awarded with Roberto Minervini.
Fun fact: The title refers to the guinea fowl's alarm call, a bird known for shrieking to warn its group of danger, used here as a metaphor for whistleblowing on family secrets.