Rungano Nyoni

Rungano Nyoni

1982-05-17 Lusaka, Zambia 8 Credits

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.

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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

2024

Director, Writer

7.5
Directing Writing

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

I Am Not a Witch

2017

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

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

Listen

2014

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

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

4.5
Directing

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

The Mass of Men

2012

Writer

5.6
Writing

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

5.4
Directing Writing

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

Iron Doors

Iron Doors

2010

4.4
Acting

A young man must escape from a mysterious locked vault before he dies of dehydration.

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane

2007

as Secretary

7.4
Acting

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,...