CARDIGAN | ABERTEIFI

JANUARY | IONAWR 2015

Gwe 16 Fri3.25 Hockney (15)3.30 8.25 Big Eyes (12A)3.45 8.10 Birdman (15)5.50 20.35 Into The Woods (PG)5.55 Hockney (15)6.10 Bringing Tibet Home (15)

Sad 17 Sat12.45 3.10 5.50 8.10 Into The Woods (PG)1.00 Penguins Of Madagascar (U)1.05 Frozen Singalong (U)3.15 Dan Y Wenallt (15) 3.30 Birdman (15) 6.00 Met Opera: The Merry Widow6.10 Bringing Tibet Home (15) 8.30 Big Eyes (12A)

Sul 18 Sun12.45 3.10 5.50 8.30 Into The Woods (PG)1.00 Paddington 1.20 Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (PG)3.30 8.10 Birdman (15) 3.40 Hockney (15) 5.50 Into The Woods (PG)5.55 Luna (15) 6.10 Bringing Tibet Home (15) 8.50 Big Eyes (12A)

Llun 19 Mon3.10 8.10 Birdman (15)3.40 Dan Y Wenallt (15)3.55 8.25 Bringing Tibet Home (15) 5.35 Hockney (15) 5.50 8.35 Into The Woods (PG)6.05 Big Eyes (12A)

Maw 20 Tue3.15 Birdman (15) 3.35 Big Eyes (12A)3.30 Hockney (15) 5.45 Big Eyes (12A tbc)5.50 8.35 Into The Woods (PG)6.05 Open Bethlehem (PG)8.10 Delight (15)8.10 Bringing Tibet Home (15)

Mer 21 Wed3.15 8.10 Birdman (15) 3.30 5.45 Big Eyes (12A)3.35 Delight (15) 5.50 8.35 Into The Woods (PG)6.05 Open Bethlehem (PG)8.10 Hockney (15)

Iau 22 Thu3.50 Dan Y Wenallt (15) 4.20 Bringing Tibet Home (12A tbc) 4.50 Open Bethlehem (PG)5.45 Into The Woods (PG)6.00 Delight (15) 7.00 NT Live: Treasure Island £12.50 (£11.50)8.10 Birdman (15) 8.35 Big Eyes (12A)

Gwe 23 Fri3.00 5.45 Unbroken (15)3.05 5.50 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 8.20 Wild (15)6.05 Kon-Tiki (15)8.35 Open Bethlehem (PG)8.40 Enemy (15)

Sad 24 Sat1.00 Penguins Of Madagascar (U)1.15 Paddington (PG)1.30 Dan Y Wenallt (15)3.05 5.50 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 Frozen Singalong (PG) 3.30 8.20 Wild (15)5.45 Unbroken (15)6.05 Kon-Tiki (15)8.35 Open Bethlehem (PG)8.40 Enemy (15)

Sul 25 Sun12.45 Paddington (PG)1.00 Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (PG)1.15 Tinkerbell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast (U)3.00 Unbroken (15)3.05 5.50 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 8.20 Wild (15)5.45 Manuscripts Don’t Burn (15) 6.05 Kon-Tiki (15)8.35 Manakamana (U)8.40 Enemy (15)

Llun 26 Mon3.00 5.45 Unbroken (15)3.05 5.50 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 8.20 Wild (15)6.05 Kon-Tiki (15)8.35 Manakamana (U)8.40 Enemy (15)

Maw 27 Tue3.00 5.45 Unbroken (15)3.05 8.35 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 8.20 Wild (15)5.50 Manakamana (U)6.05 Kon-Tiki (15)8.40 Enemy (15)

Mer 28 Wed2.45 8.20 Unbroken (15)3.05 8.35 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 6.05 Wild (15)5.50 Manakamana (U)8.00 Drifters (PG) £10

Iau 29 Thu3.05 5.50 Testament Of Youth (12A) 3.30 6.05 Wild (15)3.45 8.20 Unbroken (15)7.15 Royal Opera House: Andrea Chenier £16 (£15)8.35 Manakamana (U)

Mwldan’s annual fi lm festival celebrates it’s 20th birthday this year!

We’ve trawled the planet to unearth some unique, inspirational and insightful fi lms, many with Q&A’s and special guests – read on for more, and keep an eye on our website, e-list and follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more.

Bydd Gwyl Ffi lm Flynyddol y Mwldan yn dathlu ei phen-blwydd yn 20 mlwydd oed eleni!

Rydym wedi casglu ynghyd rhai o ffi lmiau mwyaf unigryw, ysbrydoledig a mewnweledol y blaned, gyda nifer o sesiynau Holi ac Ateb a gwesteion arbennig - cadwch lygad ar ein gwefan, neu ymunwch â’n e-restr a/neu di-lynwch ni ar Twitter a Facebook am manylion diweddaraf.

Tickets / Tocynnau*:Adult £6.50Child (14 & under) £5* Unless otherwise stated

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Ionawr | January 16 @ 3.25 & 5.55, 18 @ 3.40, 19 @ 5.35, 20 @ 3.30, 21 @ 8.10 MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 2 | MWLDAN 3

HOCKNEY (15) Randall Wright | UK | 2014 | 113’

‘Wider perspectives are needed now,’ states David Hockney, referencing both technical ways of seeing and the parameters of what we choose to view, in this spirited documentary spanning the artist’s career. Director Randall Wright is gifted a spectrum of archive material, which is pieced together with kaleidoscopic verve. Richest is Hockney’s own home-movie footage, taking in games of Scrabble with his family, giving candid insight into the painter’s relationship with his Bradford roots and the father he credits with a foundational credo – to never care what the neighbours think. As a character, Hockney emerges as a man of great friendships, a loyal cast of fellow artists chronicle his personal and artistic journey, each in possession of a crisp wit, bringing humour and light to the life of an artist who continues to broaden horizons.

Ffi lm ddogfen sy’n rhychwantu gyrfa’r artist hwn, gyda darnau fi deo cartref Hockney ei hun yn ganolog ac yn rhoi mewnwelediad i berthynas yr arluniwr o Bradford â’i wreiddiau. Fel cymeriad, mae Hockney’n ymddangos fel dyn o gyfeillgarwch mawr, gyda llu o’i gyd-artistiad yn croniclo ei siwrnai bersonol ac artistig.

Ionawr | January 16 @ 3.30 & 8.25, 17, 18 @ 8.30, 19 @ 6.05, 20 @ 3.35 & 5.45, 21 @ 3.30 & 5.45, 22 @ 8.35MWLDAN 3

BIG EYES (12A) Tim Burton | USA | 2014 | 106’

Any new fi lm by Tim Burton will cause excitement. His new upcoming drama Big Eyes tells the true story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), whose striking portraits of children with massive eyes became a sensation in the Fifties and Sixties – though her husband, Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), took all the credit for her work, claiming no one would buy art created by a woman, until a legal battle ensued to end his exploitation of her.

Bydd unrhyw ffi lm newydd gan Tim Burton yn peri cyffro! Mae ei ddrama newydd Big Eyes yn adrodd hanes gwir Margaret Keane. Creodd portreadau trawiadol Margaret o blant a chanddynt lygaid mawr gynnwrf mawr yn y Pumdegau a’r Chwedegau, er mai ei gwr Walter Keane cymrodd y clod i gyd am ei gwaith, gan honni ni fyddai unrhyw un yn prynu celf a grëwyd gan fenyw, hyd nes i frwydr gyfreithiol gychwyn i’w atal rhag manteisio arni bellach.

Ionawr | January 16 @ 3.45 @ 8.10, 17, 18 @ 3.30 & 8.10, 19 @ 3.10 & 8.10, 20 @ 3.15, 21 @ 3.15 & 8.10, 22 @ 8.10MWLDAN 1

BIRDMAN (15)Alejandro González Iñárritu | USA | 2014 | 119’

A thrilling leap forward for director Alejandro González Iñárritu, comedy drama Birdman is an ambitious technical showcase powered by a layered story and outstanding performances from Michael Keaton and Edward Norton. Keaton plays an actor, Riggan Thomas, famous for once portraying the iconic superhero known at The Birdman but now washed up, as he struggles reinvent himself by mounting a Broadway play. As the events leading up to the Saturday night premiere prove to be one disaster after another, Thomas battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself. Birdman is a true original; a work of technical wizardry, virtuoso acting, and compelling storytelling unlike anything we’ve seen before. It’s one of the wildest, funniest, most heartbreaking and purest performances on fi lm. Ever.

Mae’r ddrama gomedi Birdman yn ffi lm uchelgeisiol dechnegol wedi ei gyrru gan stori haenog a pherfformiadau rhagorol gan Michael Keaton ac Edward Norton. Mae’r actor Riggan Thomas, a fu’n enwog am bortreadu’r arwr eiconig Birdman, erbyn hyn yn ceisio ail-danio’i yrfa trwy gymryd rhan mewn drama Broadway. Ond mae’r holl ddigwyddiadau sy’n arwain at noson gyntaf y sioe yn drychinebus mae Birdman yn ffi lm wreiddiol, nid yw’n ymdebygu i un rhywbeth byddwch wedi ei gweld o’r blaen. Dyma i chi un o’r perfformiadau mwyaf gwyllt, doniol, torcalonnus a phur ar ffi lm. Erioed.

Ionawr | January 16 – 18 @ 6.10, 19 @ 3.55 & 8.25, 20 @ 8.10, 22 @ 4.20MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 3

BRINGING TIBET HOME (15) Tenzin Tsetan Choklay | USA | South Korea | India | Nepal | 2013 | 82’

When New York based Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol’s father passes away in exile with an unfulfi lled wish to take his last breath in Tibet, Tenzing realises that his father’s dream to return home to his lost nation is shared by all exiles. Driven by this realisation, Tenzing embarks on a mission to reunite the Tibetan land with its people, literally, through an art project that involves smuggling 20,000 kilograms of native Tibetan soil to India, enabling thousands of exiled Tibetans to walk on their home soil. For many this is a reunion, for some, the fi rst time that they set foot on their homeland and for a few, this is probably the last time that they ever see anything of their lost nation. Although this artwork examines the plight of the Tibetan people in exile, it also has wider resonance, exploring the notion of nostalgia, the idea of homeland and how art is intertwined with the political and the social. It also demonstrates the transgressive power of art as an act of defi ance.

Pan mae tad Tenzing Rigdol yn marw mewn alltudiaeth gyda’i ddymuniad o gymryd ei anadl olaf yn Nhibet heb ei gyfl awni, mae’n sylweddoli bod breuddwyd ei dad o ddychwelyd adref i’w genedl goll yn cael ei rannu gan bawb mewn alltudiaeth. Wedi ei yrru gan y sylweddoliad hwn, mae Tenzing yn mynd ati i ailuno tir Tibet â’i phobl, yn llythrennol, trwy brosiect celf oedd yn troi o gwmpas smyglo 20,000 cilogram o bridd brodorol Tibet i India, gan alluogi miloedd o bobl Tibet sydd mewn alltudiaeth i gerdded ar dir eu mamwlad. Er bod y celfwaith hwn yn archwilio cyfl wr pobl Tibet sydd mewn alltudiaeth, mae ganddo atsain ehangach, sef cysyniad hiraeth a mamwlad.

PART SUBTITLED

Ionawr | January 17 @ 3.15 with Kevin AllenIonawr | January 19 @ 3.40, 22 @ 3.50, 24 @ 1.30MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 2

DAN Y WENALLT (15) Kevin Allen | UK | 2014 | 86’

Bydd y cyfarwyddwr Kevin Allen yn cyfl wyno’r dangosiad ar 17 Ionawr, ac yn arwain sesiwn Cwestiwn ac Ateb yn ei ddilyn. Twin Town a osodwyd yn ei dref enedigol, Abertawe, oedd y ffi lm gyntaf i Kevin ei chyfarwyddo, a derbyniodd y ffi lm enwebiadau BAFTA am Gyfarwyddwr Gorau, Ffi lm Orau, a Sgript Orau. Gwnaeth hefyd gyfarwyddo’r gyfres gomedi deledu a enwebwyd am Oscar, sef Benidorm, The Ballad of Honky Mc Swaine; Found In Translation, Y Syrcas (enillydd 5ed Gwobr Ffi lmiau Lleiafrifol Ewrop) a Lights, Camera, Elephants. Yn 2012 sefydlodd Kevin fFATTI fFILMS gyda Grwp Cyfryngau Tinopolis.

Gyda Rhys Ifans a Charlotte Church, ac yn cynnwys ymddangosiadau arbennig gan Gareth Edwards a’r Arglwydd Kinnock, Dan y Wenallt yw’r cynhyrchiad sinema cyntaf o ddrama wych Dylan Thomas ers ffi lm Elizabeth Taylor a Richard Burton ym 1972. Mae’r ffi lm hon yn gwyro i ffwrdd o’r myfyrdod llenyddol traddodiadol ar waith Thomas ac yn hytrach yn amlygu rhai o elfennau mwy angerddol y gwaith doniol, llifol a hudol wrth aros yn ffyddlon at y testun gwreiddiol.

Wedi perfformio’n gyfan gwbl yn y Gymraeg gydag is-deitlau Saesneg.

Director Kevin Allen will introduce the screening on 17 Jan, and lead a Q & A ses-sion afterwards. Kevin made his directorial debut with cult feature Twin Town - set in his hometown, Swansea, which received BAFTA nominations for Best Director, Best Film and Best Screenplay. He also directed the BAFTA nominated TV comedy series Benidorm, The Ballad of Honky Mc Swaine; Found In Translation, Y Syrcas (winner of the 5th European Minority Film Award), and Lights, Camera, Elephants. In 2012 Kevin set up fFATTI fFILMS with the Tinopolis Media Group.

Starring Rhys Ifans, Charlotte Church with guest appearances from Gareth Edwards and Lord Kinnock and directed by Kevin Allen (of Twin Town fame), Dan y Wenallt is the fi rst cinema production of Dylan Thomas’s brilliant, haunting play since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s 1972 fi lm. Adapted by T. James Jones, with a screenplay written by Murray Lachlan Young, Michael Breen and Kevin Allen, Dan y Wenallt veers away from the traditional, literal refl ection of Thomas’s original work and instead explores some of the more visceral elements of the funny, fi lthily fl uid and magical dreamscape of the work whilst staying faithful to Dylan Thomas’s original text.

Performed entirely in Welsh with English subtitles.

SUBTITLES / ISDEITLAU

DAN Y WENALLT (15)

Ionawr | January 17 @ 1.05, 24 @ 3.30MWLDAN 2

FROZEN SING-A-LONG (PG) Chris Buck | Jennifer Lee | USA | 2013 | 108’

As the very wonderful Frozen is re-released into cinemas for the winter season, here’s your chance to see it again on the big screen, and sing your heart out at the same time! Featuring all the words of the fantastic Frozen songbook up on screen, it’s time to polish up your voices, bring the family and Let It Go!

Dyma’ch cyfl e i weld Frozen eto ar y sgrin fawr, a chanu ar dop eich llais! Gyda geiriau’r caneuon ar y sgrin, dewch â’r teulu oll i ymuno!

CYMDEITHAS FFILM THEATR MWLDAN FILM SOCIETY Ionawr | January 18 @ 5.55MWLDAN 2

LUNA (15) Dave McKean | UK | 2014 | 104’

Director Dave McKean will be introducing this fi lm and will hold a Q & A session afterwards.

Renowned artist and fi lmmaker Dave McKean brings his distinctive style, signature whimsy and blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity for spiritual healing. Whether seen as a drama with fantastical elements or a fantasy with a powerfully dramatic core, Luna is a profound meditation on loss, grief, and the need to reconcile oneself with the past, holding forth hope without providing easy answers to the small and large tragedies that life throws our way. McKean once again distinguishes himself as a truly unique voice in the cinematic landscape.

Bydd cyfl wyniad a sessiwn holi ac ateb ar ôl y ffi lm yma gyda’r Cyfarwyddwr Dave McKean.

Ffi lm freuddwydiol am bedwar person sy’n cymryd penwythnos mewn ty anghysbell ar lan y môr fel cyfl e ar gyfer iachau ysbrydol. Mae Luna, gall fod yn ddrama gydag elfennau rhyfeddol neu yn ffantasi gyda chraidd nerthol dramatig, yn fyfyrdod dwys ar golled, galar, a’r angen i gymodi â’r gorffennol, gan gynnig gobaith heb ddarparu atebion rhwydd i drasiedïau bach a mawr y mae bywyd yn tafl u tuag atom. Unwaith eto, mae McKean yn profi fod ganddo lais hollol unigryw yn y dirwedd sinematig.

Ionawr | January 20, 21 @ 6.05, 22 @ 4.50, 23, 24 @ 8.35MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 2 | MWLDAN 3

OPEN BETHLEHEM (PG) Leila Sansour | 2014 | Palestine | UAE | UK | 90’

Film director Leila Sansour returns to Bethlehem to make a fi lm about her home town, soon to be encircled by a wall. Armed with her camera and a dilapidated family car that keeps breaking down, Leila plans to make an epic fi lm about a legendary town in crisis but her life and the fi lm take an unexpected turn. This remarkable fi lm spans seven momentous years, revealing a city of astonishing beauty and political strife under occupation. It draws from 700 hours of original footage and some rare archive material, and has led to the creation of the largest visual archive of Bethlehem in the world.

Mae’r cyfarwyddwr Leila Sansour yn dychwelyd i Fethlehem i wneud ffi lm am ei thref, bydd cyn hir wedi ei amgylchynu gan fur. Ei bwriad oedd gwneud ffi lm epig am y dref chwedlonol hon, ond mae’r ffi lm, a’i bywyd yn cymryd tro annisgwyl. Mae’r ffi lm nodedig hon yn rhychwantu saith mlynedd bwysig iawn, yn datgelu dinas o harddwch syfrdanol a helynt gwleidyddol o dan feddiannaeth. Mae’n tynnu ar 700 awr o fi deo gwreiddiol a pheth deunydd archif prin, gan arwain at greu’r archif gweledol fwyaf o Fethlehem yn y byd.

SUBTITLES / ISDEITLAU

“One of the most remarkable and moving documentaries I have seen about this unreported story. The tragedy of the Palestinians encapsulated in the life of one family and one town – Bethlehem. See the fi lm, then go to Bethlehem and see for yourself.” John Snow

Ionawr | January 20 @ 8.10, 21 @ 3.35, 22 @ 6.00MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 2

DELIGHT (15) Gareth Jones | 2013 | UK | 105’

In this new fi lm shot in Ceredigion former war photographer Echo goes looking for her one-time lover and comrade-in-arms - who has retired to obscurity in deepest West Wales – only to fall into a passionate love affair with his son. But Echo creates chaos among the small community, stirring up past betrayals, and discovering that raising ghosts is a dangerous game; her sexual abandon also triggers the unravelling of a trauma Echo has long buried for the sake of her children, and which now threatens to tear their lives apart. With nothing but the Welsh countryside and her young lover to console her, Echo is forced to confront her past. What price delight?

Yn y ffi lm newydd hon sydd wedi ei ffi lmio yng Ngheredigion, mae’r cyn ffoto-graffydd rhyfel Echo yn mynd ati i chwilio am ei chyn-gariad gariad a chyd-weithi-wr, sydd wedi ymddeol i Orllewin Cymru. Ond mae Echo yn creu anrhefn ymhlith y gymuned fechan wrth iddi gorddi bradau’r gorffennol. Ond mae codi bwganod yn gêm beryglus, sy’n tanio atgofi on poenus sydd nawr yn bygwth chwalu eu bywydau.

UNBROKEN (15)MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 2

Ionawr | January 23 @ 3.00 & 5.45, 24 @ 5.45, 25 @ 3.00, 26, 27 @ 3.00 & 5.45, 28 @ 2.45 & 8.20, 29 @ 3.45 & 8.20

Angelina Jolie | USA | 2014 | tbc’

Actor turned director Angelina Jolie teams up with screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen to make this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII-only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, enduring an incredible ordeal at the hands of his Japanese tormenters. The fi lm is based on the superb Laura Hillenbrand book, and gets to the heart of how an iron will gave Zamperini the fortitude to survive unimaginable abuse.

Angelina Jolie sy’n cyfarwyddo’r ddrama epig hon am fywyd rhyfeddol yr Olympiad a’r arwr rhyfel Louis Zamperini, a oroesodd 47 diwrnod mewn rafft ar ôl damwain awyren yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd, ond i gael ei ddal gan Lynges Siapan a’i anfon i wersyll carcharorion rhyfel, lle dioddefodd gamdriniaeth ofnadwy. Mae’r ffi lm yn seiliedig ar lyfr Laura Hillenbrand, ac mae’n mynd at wraidd y modd y rhoddodd ewyllys haearnaidd Zamperini y gallu iddo oroesi.

Ionawr | January 23 – 26 @ 3.05 & 5.50, 27, 28 @ 3.05 & 8.35, 29 @ 3.05 & 5.50MWLDAN 3

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (12A)James Kent | UK | 2014 | 130’

Vera Brittain’s beloved WWI memoir is exquisitely realised in this moving and timely adaptation. Intelligent and free-spirited Vera overcomes the narrow-mindedness of her conservative parents, winning a scholarship to Oxford. Entranced by her brother’s dashing friend Roland, she plunges into an intoxicating romance. Blooming, in love and on the cusp of fulfi lling her ambitions, Vera’s dreams are brutally shattered by the onset of war. When Roland and her brother ship out to the front, she abandons the cloistered environs of university life and volunteers as a nurse. Immediately confronted with the pitiless reality of the war’s victims, her life is irrevocably changed as she loses, one-by-one, the young men she held so dear. Moving the dramatic shift from the idyllic English countryside to the stark horror of the battlefi eld, the fi lm features marvellous performances from its fabulous cast who do collective justice to the memory of the ordinary heroes they portray.

Caiff cofi annau Ail Ryfel Byd Vera Britten eu haddasu ar gyfer y sgrin fawr yn y ffi lm amserol a theimladwy hon. Mae Vera’n ennill ysgoloriaeth i Rydychen, yno mae’n syrthio mewn cariad âchyfaill ei brawd. Mae ar fi n cyfl awni ei huchelgeisiau pan mae’r rhyfel yn tarfu’n greulon ar y cwbl. Pan mae ei brawd a Roland ei chariad yn cael eu hanfon i’r ffrynt, mae hithau’n ymrestru fel nyrs. Yno mae’n wynebu realiti didrugaredd rhyfel yn syth, ac mae ei bywyd yn newid am byth wrth iddi golli, un ar y tro, y dynion ifanc a fu mor annwyl iddi. Mae’r cast gwych yn gwneud cyfi awnder i gof yr arwyr cyffredin maent yn eu portreadu.

Ionawr | January 23 – 27 @ 3.30 & 8.20, 28, 29 @ 3.30 & 6.05MWLDAN 1

WILD (15) Jean-Marc Vallée | USA | 2014 | 115’

In this captivating and richly satisfying adaptation of the best-selling 2012 memoir by Cheryl Strayed, Reese Witherspoon plays a young woman, reeling from a diffi cult break-up, who embarks on the gruelling 1,100-mile Pacifi c Crest Trail, walking through desert, snow, and over mountain ranges. Fresh from the success of Dallas Buyers Club, director Jean-Marc Vallée offers an epic appreciation of the country through which the ill-prepared Cheryl travels: rarely in recent times have American landscapes been fi lmed with such sweeping majesty. But this is also a very intimate tale, as the fi lm explores the internal journey Cheryl experiences on her long trip, coping with emotional baggage as heavy as the hulking rucksack on her back. Witherspoon is outstanding in the lead role, at turns gutsy and vulnerable – she wears her walking boots with urgency and pride.

Addasiad gafaelgar a phleserus o gofi ant Cheryl Strayed. Mae Reese Witherspoon yn chwarae rhan menyw ifanc, sydd yn dioddef yn dilyn diwedd perthynas, ac sy’n cychwyn allan ar lwybr llethol 1100 milltir y Pacifi c Crest, gan gerdded trwy’r anialwch, eira a dros gadwyni mynyddoedd. Mae’r ffi lm yn arddangos tirwedd America ar ei orau wrth i Cheryl deithio drwyddi, ond mae hefyd yn archwilio’r daith fewnol y mae Cheryl yn profi ar ei siwrnai hir.

Ionawr | January 23 – 27 @ 6.05MWLDAN 1

KON-TIKI (15) Joachim Rønning | Espen Sandberg | UK | Norway | 2012 | 118’

Part history lesson, part classic adventure tale and often stunning to watch, this well-crafted retelling of an epic true story is a throwback to old-school adventure fi lmmaking that’s exciting and entertaining. The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacifi c Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with fi ve men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. As they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometres, the world was waiting for the result of the trip. Heyerdahl wrote a book about the expedition that was translated into 70 languages and sold more than 50 millions copies around the world. The fi lm is terrifi cally engaging and ravishingly photographed, an old-fashioned man-against-the-elements adventure epic propelled by human-scaled heroics. It’s awesome in the true sense of the word: you sit in awe of the bravery, audacity, stupidity and natural power on display.

Ffi lm sy’n rhannol yn wers hanes, rhannol yn stori antur glasurol ac yn aml yn syfrdanol i’w gwylio. Ym 1947, croesodd yr anturiwr Norwyaidd Thor Heyerdahl, ynghyd â phum dyn arall, y Môr Tawel mewn rafft bren balsa, i brofi y gallai trigolion De America fod wedi croesi’r Môr amser maith yn ôl a chyfanheddu Ynysoedd Polynesia. Ysgrifennodd Heyerdahl lyfr am y daith 101 diwrnod a werthodd mwy na 50 miliwn copi ar draws y byd. Mae’r ffi lm yn afaelgar tu hwnt, a byddwch yn syfrdanu at y dewrder, ehofndra, twpdra a’r pwer naturiol sy’n cael ei arddangos.

Ionawr | January 23 – 27 @ 8.40MWLDAN 2

ENEMY (15)Denis Villeneuve | Canada | Spain | 2013 | 90’

Jake Gyllenhaal delivers a tremendous performance in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. He plays Adam Bell, a glum, dishevelled history professor, who even seems disinterested in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary. While watching a movie, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down, after which the lives of these two identical men become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfi xing in the twin lead roles, whilst director Villeneuve takes us on an enigmatic and gripping journey through a world that is both familiar and strange with masterfully controlled attention to detail.

Jake Gyllenhaal sy’n serennu yn y ffi lm gyffro seicolegol hon sy’n rhoi gwedd newydd ar y traddodiad doppelganger. Mae’n chwarae Adam Bell, athro hanes difl as. Wrth wylio ffi lm, mae Adam yn gweld ei ddwbl, actor o’r enw Anthony Clair, ac felly mae’n penderfynu mynd i chwilio amdano. Ar ôl hyn mae bywydau’r ddau ddyn yn cydblethu’n rhyfedd.

CYMDEITHAS FFILM THEATR MWLDAN FILM SOCIETY Ionawr | January 25 @ 5.45

MWLDAN 2

MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN (15) Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran | 2013 | 125’

Like his better-known compatriot Jafar Panahi, dissident Iranian fi lmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was recently arrested and convicted on the fl imsiest of pretexts by the Tehran authorities. But while waiting to serve his prison sentence, he courageously turned out the most politically provocative fi lm to emerge from today’s Iran. Rejecting artful metaphors, the fi lm follows with clinical concentration the daily grind of two hired killers working for the internal security service, as they track down and intimidate writers likely to fall foul of Islamic censorship strictures. Inspired by real-life events, the fi lm pulls no punches, yet offers a shaded, humane portrait of both its fl awed artists and vile functionaries. It’s a stirring act of defi ance, shot in secret on Iranian locations with the credits removed to protect the identity of cast and crew…Rasoulof bravely excepted.

Yn ddiweddar cafodd y gwneuthurwr ffi lmiau hwn o Iran ei arestio a’i gyhuddo yn Tehran. Ond wrth aros i fynd i’r carchar, bu digon dewr i gynhyrchu’r ffi lm fwyaf gwleidyddol bryfoclyd i ddod o Iran yr oes sydd ohoni. Mae’r ffi lm yn dilyn bywyd beunyddiol dau leiddiad hur sy’n gweithio i wasanaethau diogelwch mewnol, wrth iddynt olrhain a dychrynu ysgrifenwyr nad ydynt yn cydymffurfi o â rheolau sensoriaeth Islamaidd. Wedi ei hysbrydoli gan ddigwyddiadau bywyd go iawn, mae’n ffi lm ddi-fl ewyn-ar-dafod , wedi ei ffi lmio’n gudd gyda’r cydnabyddiaethau wedi eu dileu i amddiffyn hunaniaeth y cast a’r criw....

Ionawr | January 25, 26 @ 8.35, 27, 28 @ 5.50, 29 @ 8.35MWLDAN 3

MANAKAMANA (U) Pacho Velez | Stephanie Spray | 2014 | USA | Nepal | 118’

This is an unique, astonishing fi lm, fi lmed entirely inside the confi nes of a cable car that transports pilgrims to worship at the ancient Manakamana Temple, a shrine to the Hindu goddess Bhagwati, high above the Nepalese jungle. The fi lm creates a detailed picture of the passengers’ lives through following their shared conversations, anecdotes, observations, and even their silence, to ultimately deliver a story about history, tradition and change. Often funny, Manakamana also possesses a serious and sublime spirituality as the fi lmmakers give each of their subjects’ treks the feel of a divine pilgrimage, with no true beginning or end. Whenever the passing verdant landscape vanishes into ethereal cloud cover, it’s as if we’re moving between states of being. In this context, the most mundane conversation might suddenly take on a metaphysical grandeur, while every moment of silence feels fl eetingly precious. You could hardly ask for a more beautiful vision of souls in transit.

Dyma i chi ffi lm unigryw a rhyfeddol, wedi ei ffi lmio’n gyfan gwbl o fewn car cebl sy’n cludo pererinion i addoli yn Nheml hynafol Manakamana, cysegrfa i’r dduwies Hindi Bhagwati, yn uchel uwchben jyngl Nepal. Mae’r ffi lm yn creu darlun manwl; o fywydau’r teithwyr trwy ddilyn eu sgyrsiau, straeon ac arsylwadau a hyd yn oed eu distawrwydd, i gyfl wyno yn y bôn stori am hanes, traddodiad a newid. Yn aml yn ddigrif, mae gan Manakamana ysbrydolrwydd difrifol aruchel. Pa bynnag bryd mae’r tirlun gwyrdd yn difl annu i gymylau nefolaidd, mae fel petai ein bod yn symud rhwng cyfl yrau o fod. Ni ellir gofyn am weledigaeth harddach o eneidiau ar daith.

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Ionawr | January 28 @ 8.00

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DRIFTERS (PG) John Grierson | 1929 | UK | 49’ £10

WITH LIVE VOCAL SCORE BY JASON SINGHFOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH JASON SINGH

In this very special event with the Mwldan Film Festival vocal sculptor Jason Singh performs a remarkable live vocal score to John Grierson’s monumental silent fi lm, Drifters. Premiering alongside Battleship Potemkin in 1929, Drifters follows North Sea herring fi sherman through their dramatic daily routines as well as their underlying struggles between tradition, modernity, technology, the environment and nature. Singh’s score is a totally unique performance which combines live vocal sound effects, voice manipulation, beatboxing and live sampling with one of the most signifi cant works in British fi lm history, made by the man who is considered to be the father of British documentary fi lm.

Mae’r cerfl uniwr lleisiol Jason Singh yn perfformio sgôr lleisiol byw i Drifters, ffi lm fud John Grierson. Mae Drifters yn dilyn pysgotwyr penwaig ym Môr y Gogledd trwy eu gorchwylion dyddiol dramatig ynghyd â’u brwydrau rhwng traddodiad, modernedd, technoleg, yr amgylchedd a natur. Mae sgôr Singh yn berfformiad hollol unigryw sy’n cyfuno effeithiau sain llais byw, trin llais, beatbocsio a samplo byw gydag un o’r darnau gwaith mwyaf arwyddocaol yn hanes ffi lm Brydeinig.

“An astonishing and mesmeric experience” Little White Lies Magazine