War Witch (15)

Director: Kim Nguyen
Starring: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Bastien, Serge Kanyinda
Canada, 2012, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles

Winner of Cambridge Film Festival Audience Award 2012
Winner of Silver Bear for Best Actress Berlin Film Festival 2012
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013

This is a beautiful, powerful fairytale about love, the like of which you’ve never seen before. Komona, a child soldier in the Congo, tells her extraordinary life story to her unborn child. How she was abducted, became a sorceress and fell in love with an albino. A story about war and finding inner peace that has been labeled ‘too tough a sell’, but which audiences all over the world have embraced. A film with many facets, and an amazing performance from an amateur actress that is so moving and surprising that it is not easily forgotten.

Dyma stori dylwyth teg brydferth, bwerus am serch, na fyddwch wedi gweld ei thebyg o’r blaen. Mae Komona, plentyn sy’n filwr yn y Congo, yn adrodd hanes ei bywyd anhygoel i’w phlentyn sydd heb ei eni. Sut y cafodd ei chipio, sut y daeth yn ddewines gan syrthio mewn cariad gydag albino. Stori am ryfel ac am ddarganfod heddwch mewnol sydd wedi cael ei labelu fel ‘rhy anodd i’w gwerthu’ ond sydd wedi swyno cynulleidfaoedd ledled y byd. Ffilm gyda nifer o wahanol ffasedau, a pherfformiad anhygoel gan actores amatur sydd mor deimladwy ac annisgwyl mae’n anodd iawn ei anghofio.

Screenings
Aberystwyth Arts Centre	2013-03-16	20:30:00	Buy Tickets
Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold	2013-03-27	20:00:00	Buy Tickets
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff	2013-03-18	20:00:00	Buy Tickets