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Based on the novel of the same name by William David Owen.
A drama by Meic Povey based on the story of three Welshmen - Emyr Llewelyn, Owain Williams and John Albert Jones - who tried to block the plans of the Liverpool Corporation to flood the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn Valley in the Sixties.
We follow a nationalist who is looking for a motorbike - and for his own country. He believes that the society in North Wales is indifferent towards the future of the nation and the language and that motorbikes are sometimes smarter than people.
Ifas y Tryc is a mechanic as well as a writer, in trouble. After delivering three pigs to a market, he visits the pub, and is summarily evicted after a brawl with his non-official worker, Jo, and the staff.
Tylluan Wen is a Welsh language film produced in Wales in 1997 by Ffilmiau'r Nant and directed by Angharad Jones. It an adaptation of Angharad Jones' novel Y Dylluan Wen (The White Owl) and follows the story of a woman returning to her home town after many years away, determined to avenge her father's death.
'Hedd Wyn' is a 1992 Welsh anti-war biopic. Ellis Humphrey Evans, a farmer's son and poet living at Trawsfynydd in the Meirionydd countryside of upland Wales, competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry - that of the chair of the National Eisteddfod, which in August 1917 was due to be held in Birkenhead (one of the rare occasions when it was held in England). After submitting his entry, under his bardic name "Hedd Wyn" ("Blessed Peace") Evans later departs from Meirionydd by train to join the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Liverpool, despite his initial misgivings about the war. Ellis is sent to fight in the trenches of Flanders. 'Hedd Wyn' was the first Welsh-language film to be nominated for an Oscar.
Maureen has her hands full at home and can't take care of her father William, who may be suffering from Alzheimer's. Her brothers - Alun, an alcoholic trumpet player, and John, an insensitive businessman - don't really want to help. William, a lifelong socialist, feels angry and resentful towards the British government which has abandoned him in his old age. Having been persuaded by his children to buy a council house in the booming 80s, he discovers that this selfsame government, which made such a virtue of home ownership some ten years earlier, now expects him to sell the property in order to pay for his care. Isolated in old age, Williams secretly decides to put into action a plan to get back at the system.
Shadrach Smith and his school choir do their best to ensure that the local celebrities hired to appear at a concert in a village hall don't make it to the stage and slaughter anyone they believe is getting in their way. Released in 1974/1975.
