By José Alberto Hermosillo
The most celebrated British film of the year premiered at the Director’s Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
The team, integrated by the director Rungano Nyoni and the producer Emili Morgan, won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer.
In “I Am Not a Witch,” people speak Bemba, the language of Northern Zambia. The film opened in the U.K. last October, which is the two most essential elements for qualifying for Best Foreign Language Film. It also began to show in Europe and other territories.
The striking cinematography and the originality of the story have earned it a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and film specialists.
The highly-praised flick recounts the tale of Shula, an eight-year-old Zambian girl accused of witchcraft. After her trial, she is sent to a witch camp in the desert. During a ritual of initiation, Shula is instructed to follow the rules; otherwise, she will become a goat.
Other productions shot in Africa with similar storylines are the Oscar-nominated film “War Witch” from Canada, the Mauritanian-French coproduction “Timbuktu,” and the Netflix creation “Beast of No Nation.”
Many British productions have won an Oscar® for Best Picture, including “A Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957), “Laurence of Arabia” (1962), “Gandhi” (1982), and “The King’s Speech” (2010). However, the United Kingdom has never won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The United Kingdom submitted a film in the Foreign Language category for the first time in 1991. Since then, they had two Oscar nominations, the 1992 biopic “Hedd Wyn” and the 1999 “Solomon & Gaenor.”
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| “I Am Not a Witch” still by Film4 |
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