I Am Not a Witch

First we see a camp of witches, each with a white ribbon tied to her back, and tourists from a coach are looking at them through a fence. Then a serious little girl shows up in a village, and the villagers tell her to choose whether she is a witch, or else she will become a goat; and it is quickly decided she is a witch. When she refuses to answer questions confirming or denying she is a witch, she is taken to a witch doctor who sacrifices a chicken to determine whether she is a witch or not. In the end she has no choice. Believing she is a witch, the local authorities (a rich man) take her to a small camp made up of elderly witches, with white painted faces, each of whom is tied to their own large spool of white ribbon. The girl is restrained with a ribbon like the other witches and forced into labour. One of the elder witches names her Shula. Shula is taken away to adjudicate at a trial where an elderly man has claimed that money has been stolen from him. When the suspects are lined up Shula does not know which one is the thief and telephones the other witches, who give her contradictory advice on how to choose the thief. Nevertheless, Shula is able to correctly guess who the thief is, and is rewarded for it. A senior government employee and his wife take charge of her and take her to their home; the wife confides in Shula that even she has a ribbon, but she can take it off in the house because she has gained 'respectability' through her marriage. The man continues to exploit other people's belief that Shula is a witch by asking her to perform tasks like summoning rainfall. Shula is gradually exposed to what the wider community thinks of witches and is occasionally threatened with violence. After a caller on a chat show asks why she is not in school, she is sent to a school for pupils, like Shula, who have been deemed unacceptable for mainstream education. A witch doctor and a farmer drag her away from the school by her ribbon, and demand she make it rain. She performs a rain dance and exhausts herself trying to produce results with no success. That evening the women back at camp ask her why she is unhappy, and she replies that she wishes she had opted to become a goat. When the women are asleep, she leaves the tent and gathers her ribbon to its end. In the morning, two men dump a body in a field, and the 'witches' are seen mourning Shula, although it is unclear how she died or whether it is actually her body. As the women celebrate her death, it begins to rain heavily. The truck that carries the women around is shown to be empty; the ribbons that held them captive are flying free, and in the distance a goat bleats. ==Cast==