{"id":3644,"date":"2018-07-02T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=3644"},"modified":"2018-10-22T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:32:21","slug":"i-am-not-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/i-am-not-a-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not a Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"eventPage\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/04-I-Am-Not-A-Witch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/04-I-Am-Not-A-Witch-450x270.jpg\" alt=\"Still from I Am Not a Witch\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/04-I-Am-Not-A-Witch-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/04-I-Am-Not-A-Witch.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n         <!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Friday, 19 October 2018: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/i-am-not-a-witch\/\" target=\"_self\">I Am Not a Witch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Friday, 19 October 2018, 20:00<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"venue\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>:  (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/location-and-tickets\/\">Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"strand\"><strong>Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r<\/p>\n<p>Director: Rungano Nyoni, United Kingdom \/ France \/ Germany \/ Zambia 2017, 93 mins, 12A<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201c<i>I Am Not a Witch<\/i> approaches real-life injustices with a beguiling blend of sorrow, anger, and humor, marking debuting writer-director Rungano Nyoni as an exciting new talent.\u201d <i>Rotten Tomatoes<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Touching, funny and at times mystifying, <i>I Am Not A Witch<\/i> follows the story of eight year old Shula as she is tried, convicted and condemned to spend the rest of her life in a witches camp. Welsh Zambian Rungano Nyoni\u2019s debut film will almost certainly be unlike any movie that you will have seen before.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cStrikingly original\u201d Kevin Maher, <i>The Times<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>Further reading<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/oct\/22\/i-am-not-a-witch-review-magical-surrealism-margaret-mulubwa-rungano-nyoni  \" target = \"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/afropean.com\/film-review-i-am-not-a-witch\/ \" target = \"_blank\">Afropean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/features\/i-am-not-a-witch-rungano-nyoni-a8007081.html \" target = \"_blank\">The Independent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/interviews\/i-am-not-witch-interview-rungano-nyoni \" target = \"_blank\">BFI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b098nc6w\" target = \"_blank\">The Film Programme, Radio 4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Trailer<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/telx5Pfe2-I?rel=0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Rungano Nyoni, United Kingdom \/ France \/ Germany \/ Zambia 2017, 93 mins, 12A \u201cI Am Not a Witch approaches real-life injustices with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3645,"parent":703,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3644\/revisions\/3765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}