WOW FILM FESTIVAL
WELSH x SOUTH AFRICAN SHORTS
Created through the WOW × DIFF (Durban International Film Festival) collaboration, this is a co-curated short films strand pairing emerging filmmakers and underrepresented perspectives in a dynamic cross-continental dialogue. Expect a rich mix of tones and aesthetics.
WOW × DIFF is made possible by the British Council Festival Connects Fund.
Venue & Date:
Arad Goch, Saturday 28/03, 6.30pm
FREE EVENT - booking required
BOOK SOON
FLEAS
Jordy Sank, South Africa, 2025, 15'30'', English, Shona, Zulu with English subtitles
Tonderai waits for his mother as xenophobic violence rises. With no water, he risks everything to save his ailing brother.
FLOCK
Mac Nixon, UK, 2025, 20', English, Welsh with English subtitles
When a tight-knit farming community’s sheep mysteriously vanish, suspicion turns on an elderly shepherd... his small flock are the only ones left untouched.
Mari Lwyd
Charlie Grayson, UK, 2025, 10' English, Welsh with English subtitles
An ancient South Wales tradition reimagined through a short documentary told from the perspective of the beings who arrive with the Mari Lwyd each winter solstice.
B(l)ind the Sacrifice
Nakhane, South Africa, 2024, 22', isiXhosa with English subtitles
Led by “The Father,” nomads and servants roam under divine certainty... until The Son questions it, and punishment closes in.
Leapt Niches
Dominique Spies, South Africa, 2025, 4', no dialogue
Orphaned Allie boards her reclusive grandfather’s deep-sea submarine; a bioluminescent encounter ignites their tentative, hopeful bond.
Butty
Liz Cartwright, UK, 2025, 8', English with subtitles
An awkward father-daughter relationship told through bacon butties.