Exploring Zambia’s little-known culture of “witch camps,” Rungano Nyoni’s debut masterfully combines comedy, tragedy, and mesmerizing visuals. A portrait of a defiant young girl, I Am Not a Witch mounts an acerbic critique of women’s oppression and corruption through tourism, media and superstition.

Doubling down on the national mythmaking of his mesmerizing previous film Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra expands the parameters of genre filmmaking with this chimerical follow-up. A poetic examination of Colombia’s narcotics trade, Birds of Passage is an oneiric, unclassifiable triumph.