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Balancing domestic realism and expressionistic absurdity with precision and constant surprise, Nyoni, in the follow-up to her feature debut, I Am Not a Witch, commandingly delineates the contours of a community caught between tradition and modernity.
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 cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
Reviews
"Nyoni’s and cinematographer David Gallego’s images are made even more dreamlike by the near-perpetual night, each moment lit by the sapphire blue of the moon, where the light itself seems to dance along each surface like billowing silk." – BFI
"Palpably new, future-minded filmmaking, at once intrepidly daring and rigorously poised." – Variety
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This film is written and directed by Rungano Nyoni, with music by Lucrecia Dalt, and produced by Olivia Sleiter and Eva Yates.
