{"id":1936,"date":"2017-01-05T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2018-08-07T18:53:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:53:54","slug":"i-am-not-a-witch-zambia-thu-15-march-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2017\/01\/i-am-not-a-witch-zambia-thu-15-march-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM NOT A WITCH [ZAMBIA], THU 15 MARCH, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/telx5Pfe2-I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A knockout and captivatingly beautiful debut film.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zambian-born, Welsh-reared director Rungano Nyoni is set to make her mark on British cinema with her ground-breaking first feature. Sharply satirical and boldly provocative, the film garnered incredible praise from audiences and critics alike at the Cannes 2017 Directors\u2019 Fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>When eight-year-old Shula turns up alone and unannounced in a rural Zambian village, the locals are suspicious. A minor incident escalates to a full-blown witch trial, where she is found guilty and sentenced to life on a state-run witch camp. There, she is tethered to a long white ribbon and told that if she ever tries to run away, she will be transformed into a goat. As the days pass, Shula begins to settle into her new community, but a threat looms on the horizon. Soon she is forced to make a difficult decision \u2013 whether to resign herself to life on the camp, or take a risk for freedom. At times moving, often funny and occasionally surreal, I Am Not a Witch offers spellbinding storytelling with flashes of anarchic humour. Audacious and unforgettable, it showcases Rungano Nyoni as a fresh and fearless new voice in British film.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=81kk5hGS73w\">Watch Mark Kermode&#8217;s video review.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curzonartificialeye.com\/i-am-not-a-witch\/\">Click here for official website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>a knockout debut<\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/i-am-not-a-witch-review-serious-satire-on-a-terrifying-phenomenon-1.3260674\">The Irish Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UK, France, Zambia, 2017 | Language: French, English, Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga | 93 minutes |Cert: 12A<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0\u00a0Rungano Nyoni<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0\u00a0Margaret Mulubwa, Henry Phiri, Nancy Mulilo, John Tembo<\/p>\n<p>A short animated Irish film, <a href=\"http:\/\/animationireland.com\/igloo-animations-short-film-deposits-receives-honorable-mention-dublin-animation-film-festival\/\">Deposits<\/a>, will be shown before the feature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A knockout and captivatingly beautiful debut film. Zambian-born, Welsh-reared director Rungano Nyoni is set to make her mark on British cinema with her ground-breaking first feature. Sharply satirical and boldly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[48,18,35,37,38,28,21,19,39,23,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}