WOW FILM FESTIVAL
FILM PROGRAMME 2024
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Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Mon 25/03, 5:00pm
Taliesin Arts Centre: Wed 20/03, 5:00pm
Pontio: Tue 12/03, 5:30pm
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In South Africa's Karoo, ancient Indigenous wisdom challenges high-tech science as the world's largest radio telescope emerges. Against the semi-desert’s backdrop...
The Boy and the Heron
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Sat 23/03, 2:00pm
Studio Ghibli’s fantastical journey about a young boy who follows a talking crane into a magical world is another masterpiece from Miyazaki. Oscar nominated.
Itzia, Tango and Cacao (PG)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Sun 24/03, 5.00pm
Taliesin Arts Centre: Tue 19/03, 5:00pm
Pontio: Thu 14/03, 2:00pm
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Itzia, a deaf woman, claims she can listen to a peculiar music that always comes from the same cardinal point: the south...
Mighty Afrin: In the Time of Floods (PG)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Tue 26/03, 5.30pm
Taliesin Arts Centre: Mon 18/03, 5:00pm
Pontio: Wed 13/03, 5.30pm
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On a disappearing mud island along the Brahmaputra river, a 12-year-old orphan prepares to leave the only world she has ever known in search for her estranged father...
Snow Leopard (15)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Mon 25/03, 7.45pm
Taliesin Arts Centre: Tue 19/03, 7.30pm
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With his storytelling brilliance and wit, the late Pema Tseden creates his last visually stunning tapestry that encapsulates the mystical yet grounded realities of Tibetan life where modernity and tradition collapse...
This Is Fracking (PG)
Argentina's Patagonia is known for its landscapes and fruit production, but there’s also a hidden menace thriving...
City Of Wind (15)
From Mongolia's cinematic rural landscapes to urban life, the country’s Oscar entry for 2024 follows 17-year-old shaman Ze as he grapples with high school and ancestral duties in modern Ulaanbaatar...
Flotacija (12A)
In the heart of Eastern Serbia Dragan Markovic, a seasoned miner with a
destiny entwined in ancient dragon-hunting traditions, delves into the
depths of the unknown....
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Creating Safer Space: La Fiesta
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Wed 20/03, 10.00am BOOK NOW
A theatrical piece inspired by the findings of the research project “Art That Protects" and performed by Harlequin and the Jugglers in Medellín, Colombia.
Numb (15)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Thu 28/03, 5.45pm
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In the enchanting microcosm of a kindergarten in Iran where boys and girls are still allowed to mix freely, six-year-old Roham navigates the clash between childhood innocence and the adult world...
Omen (Augure) (15)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Wed 27/03, 5.45pm
Koffi, a Congolese man from Belgium, confronts a chilly homecoming and ancestral shadows when visiting his hometown, Kinshasa. In Baloji's spellbinding directorial debut...
Creating Safer Space: Water Conflicts
These 3 groups of films explore rivers and the filmmakers relationships with them, the social / environmental problems that surround them, and our responses to this.
Disco Boy (15)
Following his brilliance in Passages, Franz Rogowski delivers another compelling performance as Aleksei, a young Belarusian with Parisian dreams, embarking on a tumultuous journey through Europe...
Four Daughters (15)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Thur 28/03, 7.45pm
Pontio: Mon 11/03, 7.30pm & Wed 13/03, 2:00pm
Things will never be the same for Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters. She’s oscillating between light and shadow since the day her two eldest daughters disappear....
Mami Wata (12A)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Fri 22/03, 7.45pm
Mwldan: Sun 24/03, 6.45pm
Taliesin Arts Centre: Mon 19/03, 7.30pm
Pontio: Tue 12/03, 8.15pm
Discontent brews as a village, shunning modernity, embraces a faith healer embodying the water spirit Mami Wata. Rejecting modern norms...
Sew to Say
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In the early 80s, artist and banner maker Thalia joined the Greenham Common women-only peace camp, a feminist haven amplifying women's voices for over two decades. She recounts the untold tale of the longest feminist protest in British history, reflecting on collective action that reshaped lives and inspired generations...
Tale of The Three Jewels (15)
The first full length feature film to be completely shot in the Gaza strip, shot during the Israeli military occupation in 1994...
Creating Safer Space: Stories of Unarmed Civilian Protection
This series of films is about civilians harnessing the power of nonviolence to create safer spaces for a dignified life.