I Am Not a Witch

Shula, a young girl in a rural Zambian village, is accused of witchcraft after a trivial incident and convicted after a brief trial. Taken into state custody, she is sent to a desert camp where women judged to be witches live under official control, bound by ribbons to a large tree and warned that cutting the ribbon will curse them and turn them into a goat. The film follows Shula as a government official puts her to work and she is pulled between the camp's routines and a different life outside it.

Rungano Nyoni wrote and directed the film, her first feature, followed by On Becoming a Guinea Fowl in 2024. It was produced by Juliette Grandmont and Emily Morgan, and made by companies in Germany, the United Kingdom, Zambia and France. Maggie Mulubwa plays Shula, with Henry B.J. Phiri, Gloria Huwiler, Nellie Munamonga, Dyna Mufuni and Nancy Murilo in supporting roles.

On IMDb the film holds 6.9 out of 10 from about 4,900 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.7 out of 10 from a much smaller electorate of roughly 140. A critics' rating of 7.7 out of 10 across 84 reviews places it noticeably above both audience scores. Running 93 minutes, it was released in October 2017.