Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
2024
Director, Writer
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 cousin...
I Am Not a Witch
2017
Director, Writer
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.
Listen
2014
Director, Writer
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 ass...
Nordic Factory
2014
Director
Nordic Factory is a Residency, Workshop and Short Film Concept that stimulates cultural and cinematic meetings between young film directors, while giv...
The Mass of Men
2012
Writer
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 wo...
Mwansa the Great
2011
Director, Writer
Mwansa goes on a journey to finally prove that he is Mwansa the Great.
Iron Doors
2010
A young man must escape from a mysterious locked vault before he dies of dehydration.
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane
2007
as Secretary
There's a new drink taking the world by storm - Bubbleshock! Everyone's drinking it. When Maria's dragged along to the factory tour by her new friend,...