Projects in genres: Welsh

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Two young children wake one bright morning. To the audible and visual backdrop of a city slowly coming to life after its slumber, they discover their mother asleep, arms around a stranger. They quietly switch off her alarm and embark on a morning full of freedom, exhilaration and innocence.

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Heavy Pockets is a six-minute animated film about a girl who loses her gravity. Initially embarrassed by this amazing gift, Awel Jones becomes isolated from the other kids at school and only her sister is aware of her hidden talent. However, after being forced to confront the school bullies her secret is revealed and her classmates must marvel at her incredible floating skills.

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Wales 2005. Nadifa, a young asylum seeker, gets her refugee application rejected. As she can not return to her country in Africa, because her life was under threat, she hides from the authorities. In order to survive the present, Nadifa daydreams of her happy childhood, with the help of a View-Master toy.

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Out from the deep, dark woods, creep, creep, creeping come the Hobyar men. Woodcut animation makes a traditional tale to keep children awake at night. Winner of Best Animated Film, Dokufest 2005 Kosovo, and Best Children's Animation, London IMAF 2004.

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Say it with Flowers is the story of Leila, a young woman who's lost her way in life. She works in an all-night petrol station close to a suspension bridge. One day a huge bouquet of flowers is delivered to her doorstep. Her romantic longing and lust for life is reawakened.

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Singing from the Heart is a documentary programme that takes a look at the history and men that make up one of the world's most famous male voice choirs. Formed in 1883 in a hometown pub in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales, the voices of Treorchy Male Choir have performed in front of kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers. Now, for the first time you too can enjoy a private audience with the voices of the valleys in this hour-long documentary.

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A sunny Sunday in 1960. Eight-year-old Derek is playing cowboy games with his friend Tony when Derek's dad turns up speaking gibberish and in need of some help. Young as he is, Derek finds the solution to the problem is in his hands.

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A young girls' body is left in a secluded area of woodland after her murder. Her ghost appears to a friend, Alex, in the night, and after her pleas for help, he sets out to find her body in order to finally let her soul rest.

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Young Matt wants to be like his uncle Larry, Cardiff's slickest card sharp. But Larry won't teach the boy what he wants to know, and Matt has to take matters into his own nimble-fingered hands. But what happens when he meets the most dangerous man in Cardiff - the Sicilian?

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Commissioned as part of the 2003 S4C Short Shorts strand, Griffilms' short, A Frog's Life, takes a humourous look at the life of a frog from birth to adulthood.

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A Way of Life is a moving story of life's unfulfilled potential - an aesthetically and emotionally beautiful film which permits us to connect with the lives of children struggling to survive and to cling on to their dreams of a happy future.  With a magical, lyrical quality, juxtaposed with the harsh realities of life, poverty and growing up, the film tells the story of a teenage mother, struggling to bring up her small daughter, and her role in a devastating crime.  Set in a small community in South Wales, this dark but moving tale looks at the area that exists between black and white, good and evil, child and adult. It is the harshest of rites of passage stories, yet within it lies a most poignant story of teenage love and friendship.  Ultimately, it is a story of survival that becomes a story of murder - a story that will draw you in slowly, until you find yourself in a world of love, tenderness and hurt - a world which will challenge the way you look at life.  

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Molly wakes dazed on the floor. Joe has a gun. Not all is going to plan.