Screenplay: Rungano Nyoni

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Rungano Nyoni. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Listen (S)

2014 · Movie · 13 min. · Denmark

Direction Rungano Nyoni · Hamy Ramezan

Cast Zeinab Rahal · Amira Helene Larsen · Alexandre Willaume · Nanna Bøttcher

Plot A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to get away from her abusive husband, yet the translator assigned to her seems unwilling...

6.9

117 votes

6.9

117 votes

The Mass of Men (S)

2012 · Movie · 17 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gabriel Gauchet

Cast Peter Faulkner · Dominic Kinnaird · Graham Bohea

Plot 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 works in, has no choice...

6.7

45 votes

6.7

45 votes

I Am Not a Witch

2017 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rungano Nyoni

Cast Maggie Mulubwa · Gloria Huwiler · Travers Merrill · Chileshe Kalimamukwento

Plot After a minor incident in her village in Zambia, 9-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will...

6.3

327 votes

6.3

327 votes

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

2024 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rungano Nyoni

Cast Susan Chardy · Elizabeth Chisela · Henry B.J. Phiri · Maggie Mulubwa

Plot 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...

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Mwansa the Great (S)

2011 · Movie · 23 min. · Zambia

Direction Rungano Nyoni

Cast Samuel Mwale · Owas Ray Mwape · Anna Mithi · Mwansa Bwalya

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

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Z1 (S)

2013 · Movie · 33 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gabriel Gauchet

Cast Steven Mackintosh · Kate Hardie · Adam Thomas Wright

Plot Ruth and Guy's years of resentment, manipulation and maliciousness culminate in a bitter separation. Things spiral out of control when their ten year old son, Max, starts to behave abnormally.

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Not rated