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House of Dogs: The Last Barham Squires and the Curse of Trecwn

A hundred years ago, the Trecwn estate was the largest in North Pembrokeshire and included one of the most beautiful valleys in the county.  

Its last two squires, Francis Barham and his son Cyril, were not well respected, battling in court with local schoolmasters, clergymen, doctors, and other neighbours.  Their troubled lives cast a peculiar light on the decline of the county gentry.

Speaker: Howell Harris

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Gan mlynedd yn ôl, stad Trecwn oedd y fwyaf yng Ngogledd Sir Benfro ac roedd yn cynnwys un o gymoedd harddaf y sir.

Nid oedd ei ddau sgweier olaf, Francis Barham a'i fab Cyril, yn uchel eu parch, gan frwydro yn y llys ag ysgolfeistri lleol, clerigwyr, meddygon, a chymdogion eraill. Mae eu bywydau cythryblus yn taflu goleuni rhyfedd ar ddirywiad bonedd y sir.

Siaradwr: Howell Harris

Director:  Darren Thornton/2024/Ireland/89mins/Subtitles

Edward, a struggling up-and-coming novelist, juggles work with caring for his elderly mother.

Finally finding himself on the brink of literary stardom, his plans for a book tour in America are thrown into disarray when his three best friends plan an impromptu trip to Pride and leave their own ageing mothers in Edward’s care by dumping them on his doorstep.  

Cyfarwyddwr:   Emlyn Williams/2000/UK/89munud/Is-deitlau

Mae Edward, sy'n gyw nofelydd, yn jyglo gwaith gyda gofalu am ei fam oedrannus. O’r diwedd, caiff ei hun ar drothwy enwogrwydd llenyddol, ond caiff ei gynlluniau ar gyfer taith lyfrau yn America eu taflu i anhrefn pan fydd ei dri ffrind gorau yn cynllunio taith fyrfyfyr i Pride. Maent yn gadael eu mamau oedranus yng ngofal Edward trwy eu dympio ar garreg ei ddrws.

Cyfarwyddwr: Emlyn Williams/2000/UK/89munud/Is-deitlau

Sgan newydd o'r enillydd BAFTA Cymraeg hwn gydag isdeitlau Saesneg.

Mae’n Fawrth 1997 ac, yn dilyn 18 mlynedd o reolaeth y Torïaid, mae Prydain yn cyrraedd croesffordd wleidyddol. Mae William Davies, gwr gweddw a chwarelwr wedi ymddeol, wedi cyrraedd ei groesffordd ei hun. Ac yntau wedi bod yn sosialydd ar hyd ei oes, mae’n teimlo’n flin a chwerw tuag at lywodraeth sydd wedi ei anghofio fwy neu lai yn ei henaint.

Ar ôl cael ei berswadio gan ei blant i brynu ei dŷ cyngor yn yr 80au ffyniannus, mae’n sylwi bod y llywodraeth, a fanteisiodd gymaint ar eiddo ddeng mlynedd ynghynt, yn disgwyl iddo werthu ei eiddo nawr er mwyn talu am ei ofal pe bai’n gorfod mynd i gartref preswyl.

Wrth i William Davies gerdded o'i dŷ un bore, mae'n rhoi cynllun anobeithiol ac abswrd ar waith a fydd yn uno'r system – felly mae'n meddwl. Ond mae pethau'n mynd o chwith wrth i'r hen ddyn sylweddoli ei fod wedi gwneud camgymeriad ofnadwy. Wrth i ddiwrnod yr etholiad agosau, mae William Davies a’i deulu yn dysgu ambell wirionedd – am ei gilydd, ac am eu gwir deimladau am eu cartref.

Dyma ffilm sydd wedi’i lleoli yn y gogledd-orllewin, sy’n mynd i’r afael â thema cartref ac, yn benodol, sut mae gwahanol aelodau o un teulu yn edrych arno.

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Director: Emlyn Williams/2000/UK/89mins/Subtitles

A new scan of this Welsh language BAFTA winner with English subtitles.

It’s March 1997 and, following 18 years of Tory rule, Britain is reaching a political crossroads. William Davies, a widower and retired quarryman, has reached his own crossroads. Having been a socialist all his life, he feels angry and bitter towards a government that has more or less forgotten him in his old age.

After being persuaded by his children to buy his council house in the booming 80s, he notices that the government, which took so much advantage of property ten years earlier, expects him to sell his property now in order to pay for his care if he had to go to a residential home.

As William Davies walks from his house one morning, he puts a desperate and absurd plan into action that will one-up the system – so he thinks. But things go wrong as the old man realises that he has made a terrible mistake.  As election day approaches, William Davies and his family learn a few truths - about each other, and about their true feelings about their home.

This is a film located in the north-west, which tackles the theme of home and, in particular, how different members of one family look at it.