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I Am Not a Witch
2017 1h 33m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.9
97%
73%
67%
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In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
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Directed By
Rungano Nyoni
Written By
Rungano Nyoni
Studio
Soda Pictures
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Clandestine Films
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Cast of I Am Not a Witch
Maggie Mulubwa
Shula
Henry B.J. Phiri
Mr. Banda
Gloria Huwiler
Tourist
Nellie Munamonga
Police Officer
Dyna Mufuni
Leader
Nancy Murilo
Charity
Ritah Mubanga
Sequinned Witch
Chileshe Kalimamukwento
Witness
Travers Merrill
Farmer
I Am Not a Witch Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A remarkable, strange and politically potent first film.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Even if writer-director Rungano Nyoni's film were a lesser achievement - less unsettlingly complicated, less bitterly funny, less bluntly sad - it would still have the witch truck, one of the great cinematic images of this or any other year.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
Nyoni presents one dazzling set piece after another.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Nyoni is clearly confident in her vision and the story she wants to tell, and in her capable hands, the result is spellbinding.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
Nyoni does an excellent job of keeping an absurd tone while losing none of the gravity of the situation.
Austin Chronicle
Danielle White
If you like things to be spelled out, this is not the film for you.
Slant Magazine
Pat Brown
It finds that rare nexus of the comic and the tragic, underlining the absurdity of a terrible situation without demeaning those who have been harmed by it.
Film Comment Magazine
Kelley Dong
Nyoni teases our assumptions of culpability. She paints portraits of implied mysticism with elegance and precision, slowing time and framing the girl as the center of the film's universe-not a witch, but a force to be reckoned with nevertheless.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Nyoni, working in English and the local language of Nyanja, has an unforced way of dealing with themes like exploitation, oppression and superstition, showing how easy it can be for nonsense to pass itself off as sense.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
In a subtly expressive performance, newcomer Mulubwa employs a stoic, morose countenance to convey Shula's bottomless well of hurt, loneliness, shame and fear.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
Nyoni's frank, confrontational style is both derisive and empathetic; she extracts powerful symbolic images from the oppressive environment.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
The film is perhaps overly repetitive in emphasizing Shula's inability to escape exploitation, but the story is put across with formal confidence and real originality.
AWFJ.org
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
At times sincerely moving, bleakly comic, infuriating and heartbreaking, I am Not a Witch is a shrewd interrogation of exploitation, power, gender and national and personal identity.
Slant Magazine
Steve Macfarlane
It's arguable that Nyoni is stretching a thin premise, but this film is one of the obvious breakouts of the year: exactly the kind of young work-brash, committed, and narratively unpredictable-that film festivals are supposed to champion.
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
One of the year's very best films. A blast of absurdist outrage that's seriously funny until all of the sudden it's not anymore.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
It's rare and exhilarating that a new filmmaker arrives on the scene so sure of herself and so willing to take bold, counter-intuitive chances.
Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Dalton
A fable-like story about a young African girl banished from her village for alleged witchcraft, it blends deadpan humor with light surrealism, vivid visuals and left-field musical choices.
KPBS.org
Beth Accomando
Nyoni's ability to craft such a multi-layered film and complex film is simply spellbinding.
The Victoria Advocate
Joe Friar
An impressive debut from Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni who manages to keep the film balanced and entertaining with a heavy dose of satire.
Hudak on Hollywood
Rubén Rosario
The filmmaker has crafted a portrait of institutionalized chauvinism that's undeniably on point but so vicious that the laughs are few and far between. In other words, this is not a popcorn moviegoer's satire.
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