Rungano Nyoni arrived at the Cannes Film Festival unaware of the fact that she was the talk of the town. It was her first time there, but from the moment that cinephiles had read this year’s line-up, her debut feature film I Am Not A Witch was labeled unmissable: a captivating fable from a Zambian-born writer director who has cut her filmmaking teeth in Britain.
The film tells the tale of Shula, a nine-year-old girl in a Zambian village who…
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