Projects in genres: Welsh

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During their golden wedding weekend away, Edward and Violet Knights are brutally separated, triggering a wife's desperate pursuit of her abducted husband through an increasingly frightening and unfamiliar world. APPROACHING SHADOWS is a story of true love and the acceptance of death, told through the vehicle of a horror-road movie.

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A young woman with terminal cancer embarks on a series of fake charity challenges but her new lust for life is cut short when she’s arrested for fraud.

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Two elderly brothers live together on a small farm in Forest Coal Pit. This super 8mm portrait explores the mundanity, vibrancy and intimacy of their relationship and hyperlocal world. As they feed their livestock, tend to their garden, the brothers discuss elephants in China, lobster fisherman, ghosts and each other. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2022

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This humorous and melancholic portrait of a male voice choir in North East Wales begins with the filmmaker’s father, Ed, a 90-year-old widower, selling the family home and making early arrangements for his own funeral. Weekly practice is his last remaining solace, but with an average age of 74, his beloved choir is facing a crisis of its own. They must act fast or face extinction, and the hunt begins to find “brown haired men” in their 40s and 50s to keep the choir going. As their search intensifies, the group grows closer. Ed finds new meaning in his life, while Merf deals with his own bad news by focusing on the choir’s revival, and Gwyn laughs in the face of a prostate cancer diagnosis, walking the wing of a plane to raise money for charity. Eventually, they travel to Northern Ireland to perform for the first time in two decades. Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021 - Rhyme and Rhythm - World premiere

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Weeds aren't just weeds. They're like friends. During the first Covid-19 wave, plants and flowers are allowed to grow wild. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 - Shortcuts World premiere Official Selection Dinard Festival of British Film 2021 Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2021 - International Shorts Official Selection Thomas Edison Film Festival 2022 Official Selection Aspen Shortsfest 2022

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Disinterested and tired of misunderstandings, Jonny, who is Deaf, leaves a dinner party taking the viewer on an audio-visual, time-traveling adventure. For hearing viewers, it is an illuminating and emotional experience. For deaf viewers, the film is a familiar tale of misunderstanding and isolation.

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A cine poem that reveals the poetic nature and experience of coming to Wales from Congo as refugees. The work explores the refugee experience in relation to dreams, struggles and an evolving sense of identity from multiple people who are from and have now left the DR Congo.

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Three aspiring criminals grab a local troublemaker who owes them money, throw him into the back of a car and speed off into the night. Their journey gradually descends into chaos as the macho facade crumbles, and reality sets in for the long, awkward drive to an unknown, ever-changing destination.

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THE FEAST is told over the course of one evening as a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. The guests are a local business man and a neighbouring farmer and the intent is to secure a business deal to mine in the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be their waitress for the evening, the family’s beliefs and values are challenged as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives. Slowly, deliberately and with the most terrifying consequences. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - First Feature Competition

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A woman from the city has a brief but life-changing connection with a hill farmer and the landscape in remote mid-Wales. Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2020 - World premiere Premiers Plans D’Anger Festival 2021 - Winner - Grand Jury Prize, Best European Short Film

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Confused by graffiti scribbled in a British backstreet demanding "Go Home Polish", a photographer embarks on a thousand mile walk back to his birthplace in search of home.

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Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody ever thought to look – Pembrokeshire. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time. When it comes to the toll, everybody’s going to pay. Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2021