I Am Not a WItch

I Am Not a Witch

58th TIFF: Greek Premiere

A trivial everyday incident in an African village results in the imprisonment of an 8-year-old orphan girl in a witch camp in the middle of the desert. In this camp – part-sanctuary, part-prison, and part tourist attraction – she has to stay tied with a white ribbon to a tree, or else she’s threatened to turn into a rabbit. Following experiential research and a long stay in a camp of this kind, a brave first-time woman director talks about the core dilemma of female emancipation: Do you struggle to remain alive no matter what? Or do you fight for freedom at any cost?

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Rungano Nyoni

Script: Rungano Nyoni

Cinematography: David Gallego

Editing: Yann Dedet, George Cragg, Thibault Hague

Sound: Maiken Hansen

Music: Matthew James Kelly

Actors: Margaret Mulubwa, James Manaseh, Margaret Sipaneia, Shepard Mayanda

Production: Clandestine Films & Soda Pictures

Producers: Juliette Grandmont, Emily Morgan

Co-production: Unafilm

Art Direction: Nathan Parker

Costumes: Holly Rebecca

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: UK, France

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 92΄

Contact: Kinology

Rungano Nyoni

Rungano Nyoni participated in the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence programme in 2013 and was selected for the Nordic Factory where she co-directed and co-wrote the short Listen which was selected for over 150 film festivals and premiered in Directors Fortnight. It won over seventy awards, including the Best Short Narrative Prize at Tribeca Film Festival (2015). Nyoni also directed the award winning and BAFTA nominated Mwansa The Great and wrote the Locarno Golden Leopard winner The Mass of Men. She graduated from Central St Martins with an MA in Acting.