---
name: "Rungano Nyoni"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rungano-nyoni"
fi1m_id: "rungano-nyoni"
imdb_id: "nm2509638"
tmdb_id: 557100
wikidata_id: "Q38054072"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "17 May 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:02:30.339728+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rungano Nyoni

## Identity

Rungano Nyoni

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rungano-nyoni
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rungano-nyoni
- **IMDb ID:** nm2509638
- **TMDB ID:** 557100
- **Wikidata ID:** Q38054072
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungano_Nyoni, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38054072, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/557100

Director. Born 17 May 1982 in Lusaka, Zambia.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 17 May 1982, Lusaka, Zambia
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungano_Nyoni, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38054072, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/557100

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*I Am Not a Witch*](https://film.one/film/i-am-not-a-witch.md) (80)

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## Biography

Rungano Nyoni is a Zambian-Welsh director and screenwriter. Born in Lusaka, Zambia, she moved to Wales at the age of nine.

She wrote and directed the feature *I Am Not a Witch* (2017), which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes and won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer in 2018. Her second feature, *On Becoming a Guinea Fowl* (2024), also premiered at Cannes, where she received the Best Director prize in Un Certain Regard.

Nyoni studied at the University of the Arts London. She began her career with short films, including *The List* (2009), which won a BAFTA Cymru award for Best Short Film.

*Sources: bfi.org.uk, en.wikipedia.org, chalochatu.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Am Not a Witch* (2017), Fi1m 80, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-not-a-witch.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *On Becoming a Guinea Fowl* (2024), Director, Writer
- *Homemade* (2020), series, Story, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer, Director
- *I Am Not a Witch* (2017), Director, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-not-a-witch.md)
- *Listen* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Nordic Factory* (2014), Director
- *The Mass of Men* (2012), Writer
- *Mwansa the Great* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Iron Doors* (2010), Actor
- *The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane* (2007), as Secretary
- *Incidents*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Short Film 2015: European Film Award for Best Short Film (nominated), for *Listen*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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