I Am Not a Witch
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Country/Distributor: UK/France/Germany, Film Movement
Opening: September 7
THROUGH A SHODDY METAL FENCE in the Zambian countryside, a group of gaggling tourists—black and white, young and old—peer out at a maypole. Its white ribbons are tied to the bodies of women wrapped in blue sashes, faces painted white. The guide explains that the ribbons “prevent the witches from flying.” For if they, this never happens.
