Rungano Nyoni

Directing

Rungano Nyoni

Born 1982-05-17 · Lusaka, Zambia

Rungano Nyoni is a Zambian-Welsh director and screenwriter. She is known for the film I Am Not a Witch (2017), which she wrote and directed. The film won Nyoni the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut in 2018 and has also garnered accolades from international film festivals. Her 2009 film, The List, won the Welsh BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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4.5

Nordic Factory is a Residency, Workshop and Short Film Concept that stimulates cultural and cinematic meetings between young film directors, while giving them an international platform to present their first or second feature projects. This concept continues and builds on an initial, successful collaboration in 2013 between Directors’ Fortnight and the Taipei Film Commission, and will continue in 2015 with a new partner country.

Nordic Factory

2014

I Am Not a Witch poster
6.7

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.

I Am Not a Witch

2017

I Am Not a Witch poster
6.7

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.

I Am Not a Witch

2017

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NR

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Incidents

Listen poster
7.4

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

Listen

2014

Listen poster
7.4

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

Listen

2014

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl poster
7.5

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

2024

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl poster
7.5

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

2024

Mwansa the Great poster
5.4

Mwansa goes on a journey to finally prove that he is Mwansa the Great.

Mwansa the Great

2011

Mwansa the Great poster
5.4

Mwansa goes on a journey to finally prove that he is Mwansa the Great.

Mwansa the Great

2011

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5.9

Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system she works in, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness.

The Mass of Men

2012