Synopsis
Film based on the novel by Caradog Pritchard. After serving a long prison sentence, a man returns to the town where he was born. As he wanders its streets, memories of his childhood resurface in a series of flashbacks, leading up to the mysterious murder of a young girl. His present-day journey mirrors the paths he once walked as a boy, blurring the line between past and present. With hard-coded English subtitles.
Tanau'r Lloer | Fires of the Moon (2025)
Fires of the Moon, commissioned by S4C and Channel 4, is inspired by scenes from the novel Un Nos Ola Leuad (‘One Moonlit Night’) by Caradog Prichard - a modern literary classic first published in 1961. This unique film fuses the emotional power of opera with vivid cinematic storytelling, and features a hauntingly beautiful score by renowned Welsh composer Gareth Glyn. The libretto is written by Iwan Teifion Davies and Patrick Young with the music performed by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra.
Opening Lines | One Moonlit Night
John Yorke takes a look at Caradog Prichard's ground-breaking novel, One Moonlit Night. First published in Welsh in 1961, it broke new ground for its portrayal of taboo subjects such as sexuality, suicide and mental illness. Thirty four years later it was translated into English by Philip Mitchell who described his first encounter with the material in the original Welsh as 'a mind-blowing, life-changing, world-shaking experience akin to being allowed for several hours to stare into the face of God.'