DIR. Rungano Nyoni
YEAR. 2017
COUNTRY. UK
RUN-TIME. 105 mins
RATING. 12A
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7.00PM
Film 7.30PM
I Am Not a Witch is the feature debut of the Zambian-born Welsh director, Rungano Nyoni. This magical-realist satire follows the story of Shula, a nine-year-old girl who is accused of being a witch by the residents of a Zambian village. Faced with an existential conundrum, Shula's life is explored with an esoteric subtext interspersed with the supernatural, surrealist comedy and absurdism, in a distinctly Zambian context.
“Rungano Nyoni’s debut feature, the story of a girl in Zambia accused of witchcraft, is comic, tragic – and captivatingly beautiful”
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