Henry B.J. Phiri

Critically acclaimed satire about villagers in Zambia who charge an 8-year-old, who shows up with no parents, as a witch to be sentenced to exile.

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.