Theatr Mwldan Film Society / Cymdeithas Ffilm Theatr Mwldan

Cert 18

Cristian Mungiu | Romania | 2007 | 113’ DIGITAL | DIGIDOL

This acclaimed and award-winning film tells a story that takes place over one long night. Gabita and Otilia are two young women living in an all-female dorm in 1980s Romania. Vague Gabita is pregnant and wants an illegal termination, but she has been dilatory about arrangements with the criminal abortionist. When her staunch friend and room mate Otilia tries to straighten things out she is made to pay her own price to make sure it happens…

Hanes o Rwmania’r 1980au, mae merched yn ei chael hi’n wael yno, ac mae Gabit am gael erthyliad, ond does dim yn syml yno.

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we also showed this film on the 30th

Cert PG

Kenneth Branagh | UK | France | 2006 | 138’

On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as young prince Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction. Tamino waits anxiously with his fellow recruits for the command to go into battle, and in the ensuing chaos he is transported to a twilight world caught between dream and nightmare…. Mozart’s classic opera The Magic Flute is breathtakingly transformed in a spectacular new film version conceived and directed by Kenneth Branagh with a newly-adapted English language libretto by Stephen Fry.

Fersiwn ffilm o opera wefreiddiol Mozart, Y Ffliwt Hud.

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We also showed this on the 23rd

Cert 18

Ang Lee | USA | China | Taiwan | Hong Kong | 2007 | 158’

Ace director Ang Lee’s latest is a tense, handsomely mounted espionage thriller set which begins in 1942 with the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in full force. Mrs Mak, a society woman, walks into a café and makes a phone call. In flashback, we discover that she is Wong Chia Chi, a drama student turned spy on a secret mission to facilitate the assassination of Mr Yee, a hated Japanese collaborator. Set amidst a fascinating and troubled period in Chinese history, where subterfuge was a part of everyday life for many, this is an absorbing, beautifully crafted and emotionally devastating film.

Hanes cynhyrfus Siapan yn y 1940au, mae bywyd yn lliwgar a phethau ddim yn ymddangos fel y dylent.

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BBC interview Ang Lee

We also showed this film on the 16th 17th and 18th

Cert 12A

Eran Kolirin | Israel | France | USA | 2007 | 87’

The story of an Egyptian police marching band stranded in a small Israeli town, Eran Kolirin’s sweet little film has a few sharp points to make about Jewish-Arab relations, but most of the laughs spring from good old-fashioned miscommunication and embarrassment. Stranded and unable to contact their embassy, members of the band are forced to seek shelter with the bemused locals, and must endure a long night of confusion, social gaffes and unrequited lust.

Ffilm annwyl sy’n trafod y berthynas Iddew-Arab ynghyd â dogn helaeth o chwerthin ac ysgafnder.

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We also showed this on the 2nd.