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'Pleidleisiwch!' says American horror film magazine as Welsh language 'The Feast' nominated for award

By NationCymru
Annes Elwy, who stars as Cadi in The Feast / Gwledd

'Pleidleisiwch!' (Vote!) was a horror magazine's message to fans after nominating a Welsh language film for one of its awards.

Gwledd / The Feast has been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Movie category at the 2022 Chainsaw Awards which is organised by the American horror film magazine Fangoria.

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are an award ceremony focused on horror films and thriller films, now in its 20th year.

The Feast is one of five films nominated, and fans can vote here.

"This Welsh language film centers on a wealthy family hosting a dinner party in the Welsh mountains," the magazine says.

"A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel. The unraveling is all part of the fun and the payoff is an absolute blast."

The movie, which was directed by Lee Haven Jones, written by Roger Williams and funded by Ffilm Cymru, was filmed in Welsh and has English subtitles.

It unfolds over the course of one evening as a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains.

The guests are a local businessman and a neighbouring farmer, and the intent is to secure a business deal to mine in the surrounding countryside.

When a mysterious young woman (Cadi) arrives to be their waitress for the evening, the family’s beliefs and values are challenged as her quiet, yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives, slowly, deliberately and with the most terrifying consequences.

The film features a cast of Welsh stars, including Nia Roberts, Sion Alun Davies, Steffan Cennydd, Julian Lewis Jones and Rhodri Meilir.

It has already gathered awards and acclaim, after being shown at film festivals around the world including Fantasia in Canada, BiFan in South Korea, and Motel X in Portugal, where it won the Méliès d´argent award for Best European Fantastic Feature Film.

The film was first shown in Wales at the Abertoir Horror Festival in November last year at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

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6 comments

Cynan

I'd love to vote. But in fairness I still need to see it before doing so. I struggle to get to international film festivals and the Aberystwyth one happened before I heard about it. I REALLY want to see this but have no clue where. Streaming would be best.

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GW Atkinson

I looked all over for the film and couldn't find it legally until I tried Piratebay which has it. Would really love to find The Welshman somewhere also but can't find it anywhere. It seems everyone else gets to see our homegrown films before we do.

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Padi Phillips

I've commented on this subject previously, and I reiterate that it's really quite sad that we can't easily access such a vitally important aspect of our modern culture. Legally all there seems to be available is Hedd Wyn which can be streamed for free from the BFI Player site and a rather awful copy of Un Nos Ola Leuad on YouTube. That's it. A very poor showing indeed. I've recently been fortunate to have seen Gwledd and I enjoyed it immensely. I also managed to see 2015s Yr Ymadawiad, which also has Annes Elwy. It's another film that is a cracking good story, fine acting and a nice twist at the end. Yr Ymadawiad can currently be found on the Tubi streaming website, but as they don't currently stream to EU countries (which still includes the UK countries, apparently) a VPN is needed to view the film. Worth doing as the cost isn't great and allows access to Netflix and Amazon Prime in other countries that are otherwise geoblocked. But do go for a service where no logs are kept, just in case. I've also recently seen The Toll, again with Annes Elwy. It's a very quirky, off-beat story that has more than a touch of the surreal to it, and is quite hilarious. I get that there may be rights issues surrounding the Welsh films that have been made since the late 1970s, but they're all in the national film archive, and should be available to a far wider audience. Other countries seem to be able to solve the legal issues, so surely it's not beyond the wit of Wales to do the same? It's really just a case of having the will, and not just film either, what about all those TV series that will unlikely never see the light of day again, and aren't available as a DVD boxed set. There is the whole run of Belonging, which is something of an undiscovered gem, it never having been broadcast on the UK network, but solely in Wales. It richly deserves to be available internationally, and domestically, so those who didn't catch it can see it, and so that those of us that did can enjoy it again.

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Elin Haf

Yn Cytuno- I agree the Welshman and Gwledd have passed me by. Luckily I saw yr ymadawiad in a local cinema it was excellent. Where can I catch up with the films i've lost?

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Ed Jones

Looking at a few comments here, I think this excellent and free to use site could be helpful - justwatch.com - it details where any given film or series is currently/legally available. (https://www.justwatch.com/ - if you want to click straight to it!)

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Cynan

Thanks. Says no date known yet, but I saw elsewhere that it's on general release (somewhere) in April 2022

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