5.2
Black Crown
1951
I Am Not a Witch (2017)
October 20, 20171h 33mEN
6.7
136 votes
Overview
Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
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Rungano NyoniWriter
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Chichewa; Nyanja
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Soda PicturesClandestine FilmsQuiddity FilmsIcreatefilmsunafilmFilm4 Productions
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7.0There’s a lovely scene towards the end of this film where the young “Shula” is secreted inside what looks like a papier-mâché prop from “Five Nights at Freddy’s” where the tourists approach her to discover she is a witch! That rather sums up the approach taken to this eight year old girl by a Zambian society that can’t quite decide whether she is to be burned at the stake or to be commercially exploited by the state. Her predicament all starts when she is tried for witchcraft in a rural court and sentenced to be sent to a camp populated by loads of other witches. Rather than bars and fences, t…
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