Projects in genres: Welsh

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Kay Gray is a young girl who seems destined to grow up sad and lonely in grey house in a grey world with very grey parents, until the day her house gets infested with Elephants.

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Machines are rising up and taking over the world. Except this time they're not cool cyborgs, they're everyday household domestic gadgets, like Brevilles and Dysons. One family from a South Wales housing estate, who have filled their home with needless electronic appliances, are forced to defend themselves once their gadgets go bad.

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Separado! Odyssey to a Parallel Universe.

Star Trek meets Buena Vista Social Club in this psychedelic western musical as Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) takes us on a pan continental road trip in search of his long lost Patagonian uncle, the poncho wearing guitarist Rene Griffiths.

In 1880, following a controversial horse race that led to an unresolved death, Gruff Rhys' family split as Dafydd Jones took his young family to join the burgeoning Welsh community in Patagonia, South America. There was to be no contact between the families for almost a century when in 1974 Rene Griffiths arrived in Wales with his Latin infused Welsh love songs and became an over night sensation.

Director Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys on a tour that takes in the theatres, nightclubs and desert teahouses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his family, the Welsh Diaspora and its musical legacy.

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Sleep Furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub, a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out.

The central character in the film is John Jones who, once-a-month, drives the library van around the Trefeurig community, from farm to farm, collecting and delivering books. This bright yellow van becomes both literally and metaphorically a vehicle of stories – stories which take us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. Allied to a soundtrack by the revered electronic musician Aphex Twin Sleep Furiously has been described as 'lyrical film making at its best'.

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He was bald with some liver spots on his head.

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In 1943, 1,500 Italian POWs arrived at POW Camp 70, in West Wales. Inside one of their plasterboard cabins, they built The Church of the Sacred Heart, using unlikely materials, complete with a dome and a fresco of The Last Supper. This is the story behind this unlikely relic.

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Gareth embarks on a day like any other - or so he thinks. As things go from bad to worse, he decides he wants more out of life than his rubbish job, failed relationships and sarcastic flatmate.  What Gareth needs is a new start, but first he has to escape a dodgy debt collector, and the unwanted attentions of a mysterious woman who stalks his every move.

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Roll up roll up! It's A Model Artist sideshow! See them paint! See them model! See them change colour!

An artist paints her model, without much success. The model takes matters into her own hands, but the artist has other ideas. Will they they paint their picture before the ringmaster closes the show? A silent sideshow styled by the silent era, modelled on the future.

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After five years together, Angela longs for marriage, but Paul doesn't believe in it. Angela thinks he doesn't believe in them and leaves him. In his drunken quest for solace, Paul begins a soul-searching journey, trying to overcome his fear of commitment. Will it be in time?

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On her 16th birthday in a small factory town in North Wales, Tina dreams of escaping her inevitable blue collar destiny - the production lines of the local chicken factory.

Frustrated by her lack of choices Tina yearns to raise her status above the expected. But will she fail? A poetic tale of the journey from childhood to adulthood.

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Cuckoo (Cwcw) is the story of Jane Jones, a jobbing writer in Cardiff, Wales writing episodes for the awful soap opera called 'Family Doctor' starring the 'heroic' Dr. Gareth. Her marriage to the actor Sam Llywelyn is a battlefield due to his alcoholsim and her co-dependency. Following a series of disasters, she runs away on impulse with a total stranger and re-creates herself as someone else somewhere else. except, when you run from the past, it tends to follow!

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Two British hitmen try to turn their backs on crime by going to Hollywood to sell their life stories, but soon find themselves with a brand new target.