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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like I Am Not a Witch, it observes a young girl navigating an adult-made ritual world with dry absurdity, patient pacing, and a luminous visual distance that makes social rules feel both ordinary and surreal.
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Why this pick
Its restrained young protagonist moves through a community shaped by inherited belief and quiet cruelty, blending deadpan folkloric strangeness with a humane, sharply observant critique of power.
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Why this pick
Its child’s-eye emotional logic and Ghanaian setting combine social reality with fable-like imagery. It shares I Am Not a Witch’s willingness to let symbolism, landscape, and grief speak without over-explaining.
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Why this pick
This stark, hypnotic anti-colonial fable similarly uses ritual, myth, and austere imagery to expose exploitation. Its measured storytelling trusts atmosphere and moral unease rather than conventional dramatic release.
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Why this pick
For its coolly composed scrutiny of communal punishment and adult authority, this offers a harsher historical counterpart: an isolated society where children absorb the violence hidden inside respectable rules.
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01 / THE STORY
A serious little girl shows up in a village and is quickly accused of being a witch. When she refuses to answer questions confirming or denying she is a witch she is brought to a witch doctor who sacrifices a chicken to determine whether she is a witch or not.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Josephine
