Projects in genres: Welsh

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Welsh cult musician Gruff Rhys documents his latest musical road trip, retracing the fantastical American journey of his 18th Century relative, the explorer John Evans.

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A unique take on the world's most performed play The Cherry Orchard. The film explores Chekhov's play and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author creating a new space between narrative and documentary. Six actors are brought together in a country house over one weekend to put on an improvised version of The Cherry Orchard. They are pleased to see each other again and begin to explore the house and talk about old times. They chat about the play and what they feel needs to be done during this weekend but as they cast themselves as suitable characters cracks begin to appear. They discuss the dramatic themes - longing for things past, decay, regret, loss, spite and jealousy which slowly and imperceptibly begin to take over the actors and their characters. Little do the actors realise they will be consumed by the play both as the characters, over which they argue, bitch, make alliances and betrayals, and as themselves, loving, jealous, spiteful, bullying human beings. What begins as a light-hearted weekend of theatrical fun gradually turns into a self-doubting and destructive scenario. As they gather in the garden to make their theatrical entrance will they ever be able to be friends again?

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The experimental student film ’The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint’ examines the fractured memory of Betty, an elderly woman whose confused mind provides the framework for a journey through the vivid landscape of her past as she struggles to make sense of the symbolic stages of her life. Blurring the line between reality and memory, featuring ensemble performance, dance and song, the film seeks to explore the emotional fabric of which we are made. 'Befuddled' is ultimately a poetic reflection of the life, loves and losses in one woman’s fading world.

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A poetic documentary following Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's journey through Iran in 1951 on an assignment to write a publicity film for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Combining archival photographs with Thomas's own words (spoken by actor Michael Sheen), the film captures the poet's haunting vision of oil, colonialism and exploitation.

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Emma-Rose is home. Sort of. Desert boots and all. For 10-year old Jenny it’s a magical week. Then Emma-Rose is gone again.

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A short film that explores the characters at a under used Household Waste and Recycling facility in Cardiff. Bessemer Boys gives us an insight into of the type of people it takes to run the facilty on a daily basis.

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A female gure tells us the possible journeys of gures in this gothic space, playing all the parts of girl, bride, woman. A dress is stolen, returned, rebuffed. A dialogue of rising and falling, returning and escape. This is Not Jane.

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Mali is a six year old girl who wants nothing more than to please her mum. Single mum Cath, however, barely notices Mali in her struggle to pay the bills and keep it together and when a debt collector comes knocking at the door, the day takes a tragic turn.

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A guy is seeking the paradise in a fruit cos he cannot find it where it's supposed to be.

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He and She fell in love. She was banished, so now he waits. They promised to meet halfway if she could ever escape from below. Yet now she’s arrived, he can barely look at her. A story of love lost, found, returned and burned. A 75 minute piece of Artist Cinema.

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Clownism is a genetic disorder that causes the sufferer to exhibit the physical characteristics of a clown. Alan has clownism but wants to lead a normal life by getting a job and getting a date. Unfortunately he is quickly reminded that being a clown every day just isn't very funny.

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Two hikikomori decide to cross the door of wonderland in order to find the hapiness and mortality