WOW AROUND WALES
We’re taking the festival on the road! WOW Around Wales is a brand-new year-round film programme bringing bold, thought-provoking cinema to communities across the country. Starting this autumn, we’ll be hosting monthly screenings in our partner venues; films that spark conversation, celebrate diverse voices, and connect local stories to global ones.
Rooted in community, each screening is designed to be welcoming, inclusive, and a chance to come together.
DECEMBER 2025
ACKROYD AND HARVEY: THE ART OF ACTIVISM (12A)
Fiona Cunningham-Reid, United Kingdom, 2025, 77mins
When does practice become protest - or protest, poetry?
This intimate and visually arresting documentary follows acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, whose groundbreaking eco-art blurs the lines between creativity and activism. From living sculptures grown from grass to collaborations with Extinction Rebellion, their work uses nature itself as both subject and medium. Exploring their partnership and the founding of Culture Declares Emergency, the film captures a bold vision of art as urgent environmental action. Provocative, poetic, and timely, Ackroyd & Harvey asks where art, hope, and love can stand in a world on the edge.
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Tuesday 2 December, 7.50pm
Pontio, Bangor: Tuesday 9 December, 7.15pm
PAST EVENT:
LOST FOR WORDS (PG) + Q&A WITH JACKIE MORRIS
Hannah Papacek Harper, United Kingdom/France, 2025, 93mins
A poetic documentary that celebrates our bond with nature, inspired by The Lost Words. Journeying through the UK’s seasons, it weaves voices of children, elders, artists, and scientists. As landscapes and nature-words disappear, it reflects on what we are losing and offers a hopeful invitation to reawaken wonder and reconnect.
The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Jackie Morris, a beloved Wales-based artist, passionate advocate for the natural world, and co-writer of 'The Lost Words'.
Tuesday 14 October, 7.30pm
Theatr Gwaun, Fishguard
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