Director:  Sean Baker/2024/ USA/139mins

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ is one of this year’s most anticipated films.

Mikey Madison stars as Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, who meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened when her new in-laws come to New York and are determined to have the marriage annulled.

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Cyfarwyddwr:  Sean Baker/2024/ USA/139munud

Enillydd y Palme d’Or yn Cannes, ‘Anora’ Sean Baker yw un o’r ffilmiau mwyaf disgwyliedig eleni.

Mae Mikey Madison yn serennu fel Anora, gweithwraig rhyw ifanc o Brooklyn, sy'n cyfarfod ac yn priodi mab oligarch yn fyrbwyll. Unwaith y bydd y newyddion yn cyrraedd Rwsia, mae eu stori dylwyth teg dan fygythiad pan ddaw teulu yng nghyfraith newydd Anora i Efrog Newydd a bygwth chwalu y briodas.

Director: Gonzalo Gutiérrez/2024/Argentina,Germany,Spain/88mins

11-year-old Alfonso, heir of the legendary Don Quixote, enlists his friends Pancho and Victoria, along with his three imaginary and musical rabbits, to help save their beloved town of La Mancha from a huge storm and the nefarious plans of an evil corporation.

An extraordinary and adventurous journey for the whole family to enjoy.  

Starring Karol Sevilla, Carla Peterson and Facundo Reyes.

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Cyfarwyddwr: Gonzalo Gutiérrez/2024/Argentina,Germany,Spain/88munud

Mae Alfonso, 11 oed, yn etifedd i’r chwedlonol Don Quixote. Gyda’i ffrindiau Pancho a Victoria, ynghyd â'i dri chwningen dychmygol a cherddorol, mae’n helpu i achub eu tref annwyl La Mancha rhag storm enfawr a chynlluniau erchyll corfforaeth ddrwg.

Taith ryfeddol ac anturus i’r teulu cyfan ei mwynhau.

Starring Karol Sevilla, Carla Peterson and Facundo Reyes.

Director:   Adam Elliot/2024/Australia/95mins

Grace Pudel is a book-loving, snail-collecting misfit whose life is troubled by misfortune and loss. Despite her hardships, inspiration and hope arise when she strikes up a friendship with an eccentric elderly woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.

From Adam Elliot, the filmmaker behind ‘Mary and Max’, comes this stop motion odyssey of hope triumphing over life’s despair with a deft balance of dark humour and almost heartbreaking poignancy.      

Starring Jacki Weaver, Sarah Snook and Charlotte Belsey.

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Cyfarwyddwr:   Adam Elliot/2024/Australia/95munud

Mae Grace Pudel yn gymeriad anffodus sy'n caru llyfrau ac yn casglu malwod. Mae ei bywyd yn cael ei gythryblu gan anffawd a cholled. Er gwaethaf ei chaledi, mae ysbrydoliaeth a gobaith yn codi pan ddaw i gyfeillgarwch â gwraig oedrannus ecsentrig o’r enw Pinky, sy’n llawn brwdfrydedd am fywyd.

Adam Elliot, y gwneuthurwr ffilmiau y tu ôl i ‘Mary and Max’, sy’n gyfrifol am y ffilm symudiad stop-symud hwn. Ynddo, mae gobaith yn trechu anobaith, gyda chydbwysedd medrus o hiwmor tywyll a dwyster torcalonnus.

Yn serennu Jacki Weaver, Sarah Snook and Charlotte Belsey.

Billy Elliot the Musical has won the hearts of millions since it opened in London’s West End in 2005.

Set in a northern mining town, against the background of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, Billy’s journey takes him out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class where he discovers a passion for dance that inspires his family and whole community and changes his life forever.

Starring Elliott Hanna as Billy, Ruthie Henshall as Mrs. Wilkinson, and Deka Walmsley, Ann Emery, and Chris Grahamson as Billy's father, grandmother, and older brother, respectively.

Includes an interval.

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Mae Billy Elliot the Musical wedi ennill calonnau miliynau ers iddi agor yn West End Llundain yn 2005.

Wedi’i gosod mewn tref lofaol yn y gogledd, yn erbyn cefndir streic y glowyr 1984/85, mae taith Billy yn mynd ag ef allan o’r cylch bocsio ac i mewn i ddosbarth bale lle mae’n darganfod teimlo dau angerddol am ddawns sy’n ysbrydoli ei deulu a’i gymuned gyfan ac yn newid ei fywyd am byth.

Yn serennu Elliott Hanna fel Billy, Ruthie Henshall fel Mrs Wilkinson, a Deka Walmsley, Ann Emery, a Chris Grahamson fel tad, nain, a brawd hŷn Billy, yn y drefn honno.

I gynnwys egwyl.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT … AND SPEECH but how on earth did that come about?!

In this illustrated presentation (in English), our local speaker, Boyd Williams will answer the question citing evidence from several sources, including archaeology, DNA studies, English place-names and historical documents.

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WEDI'I GUDDIO MEWN GOLWG PLAEN ... A LLEFARU ond sut ar y ddaear ddaeth hynny?!

Yn y cyflwyniad darluniadol hwn (yn Saesneg), bydd ein siaradwr lleol, Boyd Williams yn ateb y cwestiwn gan nodi tystiolaeth o sawl ffynhonnell, gan gynnwys archaeoleg, astudiaethau DNA, enwau lleoedd Saesneg a dogfennau hanesyddol.

CELEBRATING DAVID LYNCH (1946 – 2025)

Please join us for a special double bill to celebrate the work of the renowned American filmmaker who died on 16th January, aged 78 with The Straight Story at 6:30pm followed by Blue Velvet at 8:45pm.  

Tickets are available for each film separately or as a special saver ticket valid for both (see Theatr Gwaun website, https://theatrgwaun.com/ for details).

WHY NOT PURCHASE A COMBO TICKET FOR THE STRAIGHT STORY' AND 'BLUE VELVET' WHICH ENTITLES YOU TO A DISCOUNT OF £1.00 PER SCREENING.

TO BENEFIT FROM THIS OFFER, ENTER DISCOUNT CODE 'LYNCH2025' AT THE CHECKOUT.

The Straight Story 6:30pm (U)

(Drama)

Director: David Lynch/1999/USA/111mins

Based on the true story of 73 year old Alvin Straight who, after learning that his estranged brother, Lyle, is critically ill, takes to his 5mph ride-on mower to travel 240 miles from his home in Iowa to reunite with Lyle in Mount Zion. This story of forgiveness and endurance 'plays like a beautiful elegy for an America that no longer exists' (Christian Holub).

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DATHLU DAVID LYNCH (1946 – 2025)

Ymunwch â ni am raglen ddwbl arbennig i ddathlu gwaith y gwneuthurwr ffilmiau Americanaidd enwog a fu farw ar 16eg Ionawr, yn 78 oed gyda The Straight Story am 6:30yh ac yna Blue Velvet am 8:45yh.

Mae tocynnau ar gael ar gyfer pob ffilm ar wahân neu fel tocyn arbed arbennig sy’n ddilys ar gyfer y ddwy (gweler gwefan Theatr Gwaun, https://theatrgwaun.com/ am fanylion).

BETH AM BRYNU TOCYN COMBO AR GYFER 'THE STRAIGHT STORY' A 'BLUE VELVET' SY'N RHOI HAWL I CHI GAEL GOSTYNGIAD O £1.00 Y SGRINIO.

ER MWYN ELWA O'R CYNNIG HWN, NODWCH GOD DISGOWNT 'LYNCH2025' WRTH Y DDESG DALU.

The Straight Story 6:30yh (U)

(Drama)

Cyfarwyddwr: David Lynch/1999/UDA/111munud

Yn seiliedig ar stori wir Alvin Straight, 73 oed, sydd, ar ôl dysgu bod ei frawd, Lyle, sydd wedi ymddieithrio, yn ddifrifol wael, yn mynd â'i beiriant torri gwair 5mya i deithio 240 milltir o'i gartref yn Iowa i aduno â Lyle yn Mount Zion. Mae'r stori hon am faddeuant a dygnwch 'yn chwarae fel marwnad hardd i America nad yw'n bodoli mwyach' (Christian Holub).

CELEBRATING DAVID LYNCH (1946 – 2025)

Please join us for a special double bill to celebrate the work of the renowned American filmmaker who died on 16th January, aged 78 with The Straight Story at 6:30pm followed by Blue Velvet at 8:45pm.

Tickets are available for each film separately or as a special saver ticket valid for both (see Theatr Gwaun website, https://theatrgwaun.com/ for details).

WHY NOT PURCHASE A COMBO TICKET FOR THE STRAIGHT STORY' AND 'BLUE VELVET' WHICH ENTITLES YOU TO A DISCOUNT OF £1.00 PER SCREENING.

TO BENEFIT FROM THIS OFFER, ENTER DISCOUNT CODE 'LYNCH2025' AT THE CHECKOUT.

Blue Velvet 8.45pm (18)

(Drama, Thriller)

Director: David Lynch/1986/USA/120mins

Possibly Lynch’s best-known film and widely considered his masterpiece.  Blue Velvet ‘an intensely 80s movie with an intensely 40s noir template’ (Peter Bradshaw), paints a disturbing portrait of how true evil can hide beneath suburban banality.  

After clean-cut college student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers a severed ear near his home, his investigation leads him to singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and he soon finds himself dragged into a sadistic criminal world.

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DATHLU DAVID LYNCH (1946 – 2025)

Ymunwch â ni am rhaglen ddwbl arbennig i ddathlu gwaith y gwneuthurwr ffilmiau Americanaidd enwog a fu farw ar 16eg Ionawr, yn 78 oed gyda The Straight Story am 6:30yh ac yna Blue Velvet am 8:45yh.

Mae tocynnau ar gael ar gyfer pob ffilm ar wahân neu fel tocyn arbed arbennig sy’n ddilys ar gyfer y ddwy (gweler gwefan Theatr Gwaun, https://theatrgwaun.com/ am fanylion).

BETH AM BRYNU TOCYN COMBO AR GYFER 'THE STRAIGHT STORY' A 'BLUE VELVET' SY'N RHOI HAWL I CHI GAEL GOSTYNGIAD O £1.00 Y SGRINIO.

ER MWYN ELWA O'R CYNNIG HWN, NODWCH GOD DISGOWNT 'LYNCH2025' WRTH Y DDESG DALU.

Blue Velvet 8.45yh (18)

(Drama, Cyffro)

Cyfarwyddwr: David Lynch/1986/UDA/120munud

Ffilm fwyaf adnabyddus Lynch o bosibl ac a ystyriwyd yn gampwaith.  Mae Blue Velvet ‘ffilm ddwys o’r 80au gyda thempled noir dwys o’r 40au’ (Peter Bradshaw), yn paentio portread annifyr o sut y gall gwir ddrygioni guddio o dan banality maestrefol.  

Ar ôl i fyfyriwr coleg glân Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) ddarganfod clust wedi torri ger ei gartref, mae ei ymchwiliad yn ei arwain at y gantores Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) a buan y caiff ei lusgo i fyd troseddol sadistaidd.

Director: Marc Webb/2024/USA/109mins  

Magic mirror on the wall, take us back to the story that started it all.  Disney revisit their first animated feature with a magical live-action reimagining of the original 1937 classic.

Rachel Zegler stars as the titular Snow White, a princess who joins forces with seven dwarfs to liberate her kingdom from her cruel stepmother the Evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot.  Emilia Faucher plays the young Snow White.

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Cyfarwddwr: Marc Webb/2024/USA/109munud

Ddrych hud ar y wal, ewch â ni yn ôl at y stori a ddechreuodd y cyfan. Mae Disney yn ailedrych ar eu ffilm animeiddiedig gyntaf gydag ail-ddychmygiad bywiog a hudol o glasur gwreiddiol 1937.

Mae Rachel Zegler yn serennu fel Snow White, tywysoges sy'n ymuno â saith corrach i ryddhau ei theyrnas oddi wrth ei llysfam greulon y Frenhines Ddrwg, a chwaraeir gan Gal Gadot. Emilia Faucher sy'n chwarae rhan y Snow White ifanc.

Director: Laurent Tirard/2022/France/87mins/Subtitles  

Mother Veronique and the four eccentric sisters of the convent of St. Benedict set out to save the dilapidated local nursing home by entering the local bicycle race and winning the €25,000 cash prize. The only hitch? None of them can ride a bicycle.

Laurent Tirard’s hilariously absurd comedy is pure chuckle-inducing silliness.

Starring Valérie Bonneton, Camille Chamoux and Claire Nadeau.

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Cyfarwyddwr: Laurent Tirard/2022/France/87munud/Is-deitlau

Mae y Fam Veronique a phedair chwaer ecsentrig o leiandy St Benedict yn cynllunio i achub y cartref nyrsio lleol adfeiliedig trwy gymryd rhan mewn ras feiciau leol ac ennill y wobr ariannol o €25,000. Yr unig broblem? Ni all yr un ohonynt reidio beic.

Mae comedi hynod ddoniol Laurent Tirard yn siwr o wneud i chi chwerthin.

Yn serennu Valérie Bonneton, Camille Chamoux and Claire Nadeau.

Director: Steven Soderbergh/2025/USA/94mins  

When his beloved wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett) is suspected of betraying the nation, intelligence agent George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or to his country.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, this sleek and gripping spy drama delivers both style and intrigue led by charismatic performances from its two leads.    

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Cyfarwyddwr: Steven Soderbergh/2025/USA/94munud

Pan amheuir ei annwyl wraig Kathryn (Cate Blanchett) o fradychu’r genedl, mae’r asiant cudd-wybodaeth George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) yn wynebu’r prawf eithaf – teyrngarwch i’w briodas neu i’w wlad.

Wedi’i chyfarwyddo gan Steven Soderbergh, mae’r ddrama ysbïwr hardd a gafaelgar hon wedi ei saernio’n gelfydd ac yn gwneud y mwyaf o berfformiadau carismatig y ddau brif gymeriad.

Director: Gints Zilbalodis/2024/Latvia,Belgium/France/85mins  

Winner of Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Oscars, this simple and beautiful animated tale features no dialogue and follows a solitary, but courageous, cat whose home is devastated by a great flood.

Finding refuge on a boat populated by various other animals, they must work together despite their differences in order to survive.    

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Cyfarwyddwr: Gints Zilbalodis/2024/Latvia,Belgium/France/85munud

Enillydd y Ffilm Animeiddiedig Orau yn Oscars 2025. Nid yw’r stori animeiddiedig syml a hardd hon yn cynnwys unrhyw ddeialog. Mae’n dilyn cath unig, ddewr, y mae ei chartref wedi’i ddifrodi gan lifogydd mawr.

Gan ddod o hyd i loches ar gwch sy'n cael ei phoblogi gan anifeiliaid amrywiol eraill, rhaid iddynt weithio gyda'i gilydd er gwaethaf eu gwahaniaethau er mwyn goroesi.

Director:  Lorcan Finnegan/2025/Australia,USA,Ireland,UK/103mins/Subtitles

In this psychological thriller, a man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But he is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is "don't live here, don't surf here." Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in time with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point.

Starring Nicholas Cage as the surfer and Finn Little as his son.

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Cyfarwyddwr:  Lorcan Finnegan/2025/Australia,USA,Ireland,UK/103munud/Isdeitlau

Yn y ffilm seicolegol gyffrous hon, mae dyn yn dychwelyd i draeth ddelfrydol, yr oedd yn ei adnabod yn ei blentyndod, i syrffio gyda’i fab. Mae'n cael ei rwystro gan grŵp o bobl leol sy’n cyhoeddi "peidiwch â byw yma, peidiwch â syrffio yma." Mae’r tensiwn yn codi a’r dyn yn cael ei dynnu i mewn i wrthdaro, yng ngwres tanbaid yr haul, sy’n yn ei wthio i'r pen.

Yn serennu Nicholas Cage fel y syrffiwr a Finn Little fel ei fab.

Director: Margy Kinmonth/2025/UK/90mins  

From British film director Margy Kinmonth, this feature documentary shines a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines around the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking the question: when it’s life or death, what do women see that men don’t?

Starring Assis Dias, Maggi Hambling and Marcella Hanselaar. 

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Cyfarwyddwr: Margy Kinmonth/2025/UK/90munud

Gan y cyfarwyddwr ffilm o Brydain, Margy Kinmonth, mae’r rhaglen ddogfen hon yn taflu goleuni ar rôl arloesol artistiaid rhyfel benywaidd. Ar y rheng flaen o gwmpas y byd, yn hyrwyddo persbectif benywaidd ar wrthdaro trwy gelf, maent yn gofyn y cwestiwn: pan fydd bywyd yn y fantol , beth mae menywod yn ei weld nad yw dynion yn ei weld?

Yn serennu Assis Dias, Maggi Hambling a Marcella Hanselaar. 

Starring Tony nominee Jeremy Jordan and Olivier nominee Frances Mayli McCann, this award-winning production (including Best New Musical - What’s On Stage Awards 2023) re-tells the unbelievable true story of America's most infamous couple, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

Recorded live at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, discover the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire nation.

Includes an interval.

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Gyda Jeremy Jordan, a enwebwyd am wobrau Tony ac Olivier, a Frances Mayli McCann, mae’r cynhyrchiad arobryn hwn (Sioe Gerdd Newydd Orau - Gwobrau What’s On Stage 2023) yn ail adrodd stori wir anghredadwy cwpl mwyaf gwaradwyddus America, Bonnie Parker a Clyde Barrow.

Wedi’i recordio’n fyw yn y Theatre Royal Drury Lane yn Llundain, darganfyddwch stori gariad, antur a throsedd drydanol a ddaliodd sylw cenedl gyfan.

I gynnwys egwyl.

Director: Jared Hess/2025/Sweden,USA/101mins

Four misfits are pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland known as the Overworld, a place that thrives on imagination. In order to get back home, the group must use their creativity to master this new world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected crafter named Steve.

Based on the best-selling video game of all time, this live-action adventure-comedy stars Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Jemaine Clement and Jennifer Coolidge.

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Cyfarwyddwr: Jared Hess/2025/Sweden,USA/101munud

Mae pedwar cymeriad yn cael eu tynnu trwy borth dirgel i wlad ryfedd a elwir yn Overworld, lle sy'n ffynnu ar ddychymyg. Er mwyn dychwelyd adref, rhaid i’r grŵp ddefnyddio eu creadigrwydd i feistroli’r byd newydd hwn wrth gychwyn ar daith hudolus gyda chrefftwr annisgwyl o’r enw Steve.

Yn seiliedig ar y gêm fideo mwyaf llwyddiannus erioed, mae'r comedi antur yma yn serennu Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Jemaine Clement a Jennifer Coolidge.

The Abigail’s Arts Award, founded in 2022, is a bursary awarded each year to two successful applicants aspiring to a career in the creative and performing arts.

This show is the opportunity for last year’s winners to perform in public on the TG stage and for this year’s short list of applicants to impress the judges, who will be announcing the two winners at the end of the evening.

The Abigail’s Arts Award is presented by Theatr Gwaun and funded by the Goswell family to honour the legacy of Abigail Goswell, who sadly passed away in 2020 from breast cancer.

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Mae Gwobr Celfyddydau Abigail, a sefydlwyd yn 2022, yn fwrsariaeth a ddyfernir bob blwyddyn i ddau ymgeisydd llwyddiannus sy'n anelu at yrfa yn y celfyddydau creadigol a pherfformio.

Mae'r sioe hon yn gyfle i enillwyr y llynedd berfformio'n gyhoeddus ar y llwyfan ac i restr fer eleni o ymgeiswyr greu argraff ar y beirniaid, a fydd yn cyhoeddi'r ddau enillydd ar ddiwedd y noson.

Cyflwynir Gwobr Celfyddydau Abigail gan Theatr Gwaun a'i hariannu gan deulu Goswell i anrhydeddu etifeddiaeth Abigail Goswell, a fu farw yn anffodus yn 2020 o ganser y fron.

Director: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal/2023/Palestine/952mins/Subtitled

No Other Land is the directorial debut of this Palestinian/Israeli collective who worked together from 2019 to 2023 to produce this deeply affecting documentary about the forced displacement of Basel Adra’s community in Masafer Yatta, a region of the occupied West Bank.

No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 97th Academy Awards. At the ceremony Yuval Abraham said “We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together our voices are stronger”. The significance of this film is not just that it exposes the realities of Palestinian lives but also that it provides a small glimpse of how solidarity can be forged.

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Cyfarwyddwr: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal/2023/Palestina/92munud/Isdeitlau

'No Other Land' yw ymddangosiad cyfarwyddol y grŵp Palestina/Israelaidd hwn a weithiodd gyda’i gilydd rhwng 2019 a 2023 i gynhyrchu’r rhaglen ddogfen hynod effaith hon am ddadleoli gorfodol cymuned Basel Adra yn Masafer Yatta, rhanbarth o’r Lan Orllewinol dan feddiant.

Enillodd No Other Land yr Oscar am y Rhaglen Ddogfen Orau yn 97ain Gwobrau'r Academi. Yn y seremoni dywedodd Yuval Abraham “Fe wnaethon ni’r ffilm hon, Palestiniaid ac Israeliaid, oherwydd gyda’n gilydd mae ein lleisiau yn gryfach”. Arwyddocâd y ffilm hon yw nid yn unig ei bod yn datgelu gwirioneddau bywydau Palestina ond hefyd ei bod yn rhoi cipolwg bach ar sut y gellir meithrin undod.

On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle ensues between their ruler Wotan and his rebellious daughter, Brünnhilde.

Sung in German with subtitles

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Ar noson stormus, mae tynged yn dod â dau ddieithryn at ei gilydd, gan ryddhau cariad sydd â'r pŵer i ddod â bydoedd i ben. Yn y cyfamser, ym myd y duwiau, mae brwydr epig yn dilyn rhwng eu rheolwr Wotan a ei ferch wrthryfelgar, Brünnhilde.

Cenir yn Almaeneg gydag isdeitlau

Director: Sandhya Suri/2024/India/128mins/Subtitles

Under an archaic government scheme, newly widowed Santosh (Shaman Goswami) inherits her husband's job as a police constable in rural northern India.

When a low-caste girl is found murdered, she is drawn into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist Inspector Sharma and forced to confront the brutality around her.  

A gripping crime drama and searing social critique.

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Cyfarwyddwr: Sandhya Suri/2024/India/128munud/Is-deitlau

O dan gynllun hynafol y llywodraeth, mae Santosh (Shaman Goswami) sydd newydd weddw yn etifeddu swydd ei gŵr fel cwnstabl heddlu yng nghefn gwlad gogledd India.

Pan ddarganfyddir merch cast isel wedi'i llofruddio, caiff ei thynnu i mewn i'r ymchwiliad o dan adain yr Arolygydd ffeministaidd carismatig, Sharma, a'i gorfodi i wynebu'r creulondeb o'i chwmpas.  

Drama drosedd afaelgar a beirniadaeth gymdeithasol frwd.

FOOL’S PARADISE

Luminescent and shimmering, Fool’s Paradise marked the first of Wheeldon’s many collaborations with composer Joby Talbot. It was created in 2007 for Wheeldon’s own company, Morphoses, and

first performed in 2012 by The Royal Ballet.

Yn oleuol ac yn symudliw, roedd Fool’s Paradise yn nodi’r cyntaf o gydweithrediadau niferus Wheeldon gyda’r cyfansoddwr Joby Talbot. Fe’i crëwyd yn 2007 ar gyfer cwmni Wheeldon ei hun, Morphoses, a’i pherfformio gyntaf yn 2012 gan The Royal Ballet.

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THE TWO OF US

The wistful songs of Joni Mitchell set the scene for the UK premiere of The Two of Us, a duet of deep intimacy and yearning. It was created in 2020 for the Fall for Dance Festival in New York, and had American ballet dancers Sarah Mearns and David Hallberg in its original cast.

Gosododd caneuon dirdynnol Joni Mitchell y llwyfan ar gyfer perfformiad cyntaf y DU o The Two of Us, deuawd o agosatrwydd a dyhead dwfn. Fe’i crëwyd yn 2020 ar gyfer Gŵyl Fall for Dance yn Efrog Newydd, ac roedd gan y dawnswyr bale Americanaidd Sarah Mearns a David Hallberg yn ei gast gwreiddiol.

Fishguard Folk Festival - 3 Daft Monkeys

With a fiery helter-skelter blend of influences from East and West, 3 Daft Monkeys inject a unique wildness into their music, producing a symphonious cacophony of styles. Vocal melodies soar above percussive global beats and rhythms, while passionate fiddle-driven tunes weave around animated guitar and bass, all presented with outstanding musicianship in their famously theatrical live performances.

The band's recent new album Information Camouflage has received stunning reviews and has already been heralded by critics as their “album of the year 2024”. This multi-award-winning live act continue to deliver dynamic, rampageous, powerful performances of completely original songs with endless energy and enthusiasm.

With many years of international festival experience in hand, 3 Daft Monkeys know how to work a festival crowd, and are guaranteed to whip an audience into a frenzy of emotions with every performance.

Cynefin and Alaw - Fishguard Folk Festival

Cynefin (pronounced ‘kuh-neh-vin’) is the brainchild of Welsh folk singer, researcher and cultural historian Owen Shiers.

The project’s acclaimed debut album Dilyn Afon (2020), marked the culmination of three years’ research mapping long forgotten and neglected folk songs of his native Ceredigion. The Guardian hailed Shiers as ‘a stunning new talent’ and Songlines dubbed it “beguiling…a distinct debut”. Nominations for Welsh Language Album of the Year 2020 and three nominations in the 2023 Wales Folk Awards followed.

The second album Shimli (2025), is rooted firmly in the customs and cultural vernacular of the area.

Drawing inspiration from living oral history and folk song-poet tradition. Owen says it’s: “a personal dispatch from the struggle to preserve a language, culture and way of life,” adding, “the album is a musical petition – a stake in the ground for the diverse and the disappearing in our age of homogenisation and mass amnesia.”

Award-winning Celtic Welsh folk outfit Alaw has a reputation for bringing together a trio of top musical talents. This new and exciting incarnation of Alaw has founding member Dylan Fowler on guitar, singer Nia Lynn and fiddle player Patrick Rimes.

The band’s sound has evolved with new material alongside fresh takes on Alaw’s classic repertoire. Soloist, composer and arranger, Dylan Fowler has collaborated with musicians across the world during 30 years on the professional music scene and has released two solo CDs on the Acoustic Music Records label.

Nia Lynn (Yr Hwntas) is a singer, folk and jazz specialist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. And Patrick Rimes (Calan, VRï) one of the most familiar faces on the Welsh music scene. An accomplished composer, and arranger, he is a trained viola player and can regularly be found playing traditional fiddle and pipes in folk line-ups performing internationally.

Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is a lonely 70-year-old widow whose daughter lives thousands of miles away in Europe. She risks unwelcome interest from both neighbours and the morality police as she determines to shake up her mundane existence and revitalise her love life.  A chance encounter leads to an unforgettable evening in this charming, thought-provoking and quietly subversive drama from Iran.  

My Favourite Cake is a tragicomedy and romantic drama film co-written and directed by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, and starring Lily Farhadpour and Esmail Mehrabi.

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Mae Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) yn weddw 70 oed unig y mae ei merch yn byw miloedd o filltiroedd i ffwrdd yn Ewrop. Mae hi'n peryglu diddordeb digroeso gan y ddau gymdogion a'r heddlu moesoldeb wrth iddi benderfynu ysgwyd ei bodolaeth mundane ac adfywio ei bywyd cariad. Mae cyfarfyddiad siawns yn arwain at noson fythgofiadwy yn y ddrama swynol, ysgogol a chynhyrfus dawel hon o Iran.

Mae My Favourite Cake yn ffilm ddrama gomedi a rhamantus a gydysgrifennwyd ac a gyfarwyddwyd gan Maryam Moghaddam a Behtash Sanaeeha, ac sy'n serennu Lily Farhadpour ac Esmail Mehrabi.

Director: Walter Salles/Brazil,France/2024/138mins/Subtitles

A true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule.

When Rubens Paiva, a Brazilian Congressman and opponent of the dictatorship, is abducted from his home, his wife and children are left reeling for decades. This superbly filmed period drama by veteran director Walter Salles is elevated by an extraordinary Oscar-nominated performance from Fernanda Torres.

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Cyfarwyddwr: Walter Salles/Brasil,Ffrainc/2024/138munud/Is-deitlau

Saga bywyd go iawn o deulu Brasil wedi'i rwygo'n ddarnau gan reolaeth filwrol.

Pan gaiff Rubens Paiva, Cyngreswr o Frasil a gwrthwynebydd yr unbennaeth, ei chipio o'i gartref, mae ei wraig a'i blant yn cael eu gadael yn chwil am ddegawdau. Mae’r ddrama gyfnod hon sydd wedi’i ffilmio’n wych gan y cyn-gyfarwyddwr Walter Salles yn cael ei dyrchafu gan berfformiad rhyfeddol gan Fernanda Torres a enwebwyd am Oscar.

STEVENS AND POUND

BBC Radio 3’s award-winning Delia Stevens and three time BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee, Will Pound, present an unprecedented collaboration, following the creative evolution of the classical composers inspired by folk music .

Driven by a maverick curiosity, having stumbled upon a completely new world of sound, they combine the traditional instruments of Pound's melodeon and harmonica with the dizzying array of Stevens' percussion. Whilst paying homage to their respective musical roots, coupled with imagination, they create an extraordinary sonic arsenal.

Their creative process of recomposition sees folk musician Will Pound learning scores exclusively by ear, blending complex classical structures with the fluidity of folk music, reinterpreted through the lens of traditional music and beyond. Classically trained musician Delia Stevens draws on the sheer invention of the world of percussion. Together they transform their collective past into an imagined future.

Mae Delia Stevens arobryn BBC Radio 3 ac enwebai Cerddor Gwerin y Flwyddyn BBC Radio 2 deirgwaith, Will Pound, yn cyflwyno cydweithrediad digynsail, yn dilyn esblygiad creadigol y cyfansoddwyr clasurol a ysbrydolwyd gan werin.

Wedi’u hysgogi gan chwilfrydedd difrïol, wedi iddynt faglu ar fyd sain cwbl newydd, maent yn cyfuno offerynnau traddodiadol melodeon a harmonica Pound â’r amrywiaeth bensyfrdanol o offerynnau taro Stevens. Mae dychmygion yn cynhyrfu tra'n talu gwrogaeth i'w gwreiddiau cerddorol priodol, gan greu arsenal sonig hynod.

Mae eu proses greadigol o ail-gyfansoddi yn gweld y cerddor gwerin Will Pound yn dysgu sgorau o'r glust yn unig, gan asio strwythurau clasurol cymhleth â hylifedd cerddoriaeth werin, wedi'u hailddehongli trwy lens cerddoriaeth draddodiadol a thu hwnt; mae'r cerddor sydd wedi'i hyfforddi'n glasurol, Delia Stevens, yn defnyddio dyfeisgarwch pur y byd offerynnau taro; gyda'i gilydd maent yn trawsnewid eu gorffennol cyfunol yn ddyfodol dychmygol.

CADI GLWYS

Telynores teires a chantores gwerin o ardal Sycharth, Dyffryn Tanat yw Cadi, gyda repetoire wedi ei ysbrydoli gan y traddodiadau Cymreig. Dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf, bu’n llwyddiannus yn ennill ysgoloriaeth Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2024, ysgoloriaeth Nansi Richards yng Ngwyl Gerdd Dant 2024, ac ennill gyda’i thelyn yn yr Wyl Ban Geltaidd 2023, yn ogystal a dawnsio gwerin a chlocsio gyda band twmpath TwmpDaith yn L’Orient. Nawr, mae hi’n astudio Cerddoriaeth ym Mhrifysgol Glasgow. Dyma gerddor wedi selio’n gryf mewn hunaniaeth Gymreig a llen gwerinol.

Cadi is a triple harpist and folk singer from Sycharth, Tanat Valley, with a repetoire inspired by the Welsh traditions. Over recent years, she’s won the Urdd Eisteddfod Scholarship 2024, Nansi Richards Scholarship at the Gwyl Cerdd Dant 2024, won with her harp at the Pan Celtic Festival 2023, as well as clogged and folk danced with Welsh ceilidh band TwmpDaith at the L’Orient Interceltique Festival. Now, she studies Music at the University of Glasgow. She is a musician rooted in Welsh heritage and folklore.

KOSMOS

Harriet, Meg and Miloš have crafted a programme unique to Kosmos, inspired by music from all around the globe.  Wild Gypsy fiddling, emotive Jewish and Greek music glide seamlessly into hot-blooded tango, alongside interpretations of Japanese, Polish and Swedish songs, Scottish reels, new arrangements by and for the ensemble, with references to classical composers including Bach, Satie, Piazzolla, Ligeti, Brahms and Sarasate.

Mae Harriet, Meg a Miloš wedi creu rhaglen unigryw gydag ysbrydoliaeth gan gerddoriaeth o bob rhan o’r byd.  Bydd miwsig gwyllt y sipsi,ac alawon emosiynol Iddewig a Groegaidd yn llifo’n ddi-dor i mewn i tango ffyrnig, ochr yn ochr â’u dehongliadau o ganeuon Japaneaidd, Pwylaidd a Swedaidd, riliau Albanaidd a threfniadau newydd sbon yr ensemble, gyda chyfeiriadau at gyfansoddwyr clasurol gan gynnwys Bach, Satie, Piazzolla, Ligeti, Brahms a Sarasate.

GEOFF EALES TRIO

‘Celtic Stories’

The highly-acclaimed Geoff Eales Trio present a programme of music that celebrates Welsh history and culture. You will hear fresh interpretations of Welsh folk melodies such as Lisa Lan, Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn and the Gower Wassail, as well as several new works by Geoff written especially for the festival.

‘Storïau Celtaidd’

Mae Triawd Geoff Eales wedi derbyn canmoliaeth uchel a byddant yn cyflwyno rhaglen o gerddoriaeth sy’n dathlu hanes a diwylliant Cymru. Bydd y perfformiad yn cynnwys dehongliadau newydd o alawon gwerin Cymreig megis Lisa Lan, Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn a’r Gower Wassail, yn ogystal â nifer o weithiau newydd gan Geoff a ysgrifennwyd yn arbennig ar gyfer yr Ŵyl.

YOUNG MUSIC MAKERS OF DYFED

This concert, co-presented with Young Music Makers of Dyfed, showcases some of the finest young musicians in the area and has become an intrinsic part of the festival. Over the years, several musicians who have performed at this event have gone on to have professional careers in music.

Cyflwynir y cyngerdd hwn ar y cyd gyda Cerddorion Ifainc Dyfed ac erbyn hyn mae’n rhan anatod o’r Ŵyl. Rhoddir llwyfan i rai o gerddorion ifainc mwyaf disglair yr ardal a dros y blynyddoedd mae nifer o’r cerddorion fu’n perfformio yn y cyngerdd hwn wedi mynd ymlaen i ddilyn gyrfaoedd proffesiynol mewn cerddoriaeth.

Sponsor a Seat at Theatr Gwaun

Lots of people love Row G, some prefer the view from the back, and the aisle seats are always popular. Wherever it is you like to sit, you can now make it a little more personal. We have launched our ‘Sponsor a Seat Fundraising Campaign’ and we are inviting donations of £ 200 plus for Row G and the aisle seats and £ 100 plus for all of the others.

Your much needed support will be recognised with a plaque, mounted on the back of the seat in front of your chosen seat, so that it is visible to you as you sit. All of the costs for purchasing and mounting the plaques will be covered by Theatr Gwaun and we will arrange for it to be engraved with your name, or a name of your choice.

The plaques will remain in place for five years and ahead of that anniversary date we will contact you to see if you might consider repeating your generous donation and continuing to enjoy seeing your plaque when you visit Theatr Gwaun.

Noddwch Sedd yn Theatr Gwaun

Mae llawer o bobl yn caru Rhes G, mae'n well gan rai yr olygfa o'r cefn, ac mae'r seddi ger y grisiau canol bob amser yn boblogaidd. Ble bynnag chi’n hoffi eistedd, gallwch nawr ei wneud ychydig yn fwy personol. Rydym wedi lansio ein ‘Hymgyrch Codi Arian Noddi Sedd’ ac rydym yn gwahodd rhoddion o £200 ac i fyny ar gyfer Rhes G a’r seddi grisiau canol a £100 ac i fyny ar gyfer pob un o’r lleill.

Bydd eich cefnogaeth hael yn cael ei gydnabod gyda phlac, wedi'i osod ar gefn y sedd o flaen eich sedd ddewisol, fel ei fod yn weladwy i chi wrth i chi eistedd. Bydd yr holl gostau ar gyfer prynu a gosod y placiau yn cael eu talu gan Theatr Gwaun a byddwn yn trefnu gosod eich enw chi, neu enw o’ch dewis.

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