Maggie Mulubwa in "I Am Not A Witch." (Courtesy Film Movement) The title phrase is never uttered aloud in writer-director Rungano Nyoni’s “I Am Not a Witch,” a blisteringly comic critique of ...

Perhaps more beautiful and strange than wholly satisfying, it’s nonetheless easy to see why Rungano Nyoni’s debut film arrives in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of Cannes trailing ribbons of ...

Possibly the year’s most audacious film debut, “I Am Not A Witch” has won numerous awards, including Britain’s BAFTA for best first feature, and to see it is to understand why. Written and directed by ...

It is only since 1991 that the United Kingdom has submitted films for Oscar consideration in the category of foreign-language film. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of those works — which must have ...

Rungano Nyoni’s debut feature takes a bitingly comical look at real-life "witch camps" in Africa. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent “My neighbor accused her grandmother of turning into a snake in ...

The line sums up the absurd, paradoxical world of witchcraft. When you’ve been told you’re a witch, forced to live as a witch, forced to act as a witch, you might eventually start believing you’re a ...

...I don't wear a pointy black hat, I don't have a big hooked nose with a wart on it, I don't cackle when I laugh, I don't brew potions in my caldron, I do not float when tossed into water, and I ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. First-time feature director Rungano Nyoni has a comic gift, coolly ticking away at the heart of her singular satire I ...

A young Zambian girl is banished from her village for alleged witchcraft in 'I Am Not a Witch,' the debut feature from British writer-director Rungano Nyoni. By Stephen Dalton A winningly original and ...