Fires of the Moon / Tanau’r Lloer

1950s A writer receives news that takes him on a melancholy train journey back home. As he travels through the night, memories resurface, forcing him to reflect on events that led to his mother’s confinement in an asylum some thirty years earlier.

Inspired by scenes from the classic of Welsh literature, “Un Nos Ola Leuad”, and with a hauntingly beautiful score, performed by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, this Welsh-language opera film is a genre-bending exploration of grief, memory, mental illness and the power of artistic creation.

Genre: Coming of age, Drama, Opera

• Director: Chris Forster
• Producer (Executive): Patrick Young, Ed Talfan, Emyr Afan
• Screenwriter: Marc Evans
• Composer: Gareth Glyn, Librettists Iwan Teifion Davies and Patrick Young
• Cast: Huw Ynyr, Elin Prichard, Annes Elwy, Dylan Morrison-Jones
• Story / Narrative: Inspired by scenes from the novel Un Nos Ola Leuad
• Filming locations: Filmed entirely in Wales, Dragon Studios and Great Point Seren Studios and on location in Bethesda, Llangollen and Blaenau Ffestiniog.
• Funding: S4C
• Other Welsh connections: Score performed by the Welsh National Opera.

Other Key Production Details

• Producer: Kirsten Stoddart

• Running time: 1 hour 25 minutes
• Language: Welsh
• Certificate: 15
• Accessible Formats: Subtitles

• Date: To be confirmed

• Edinburgh International Film Festival Ltd (EIFF) – World Premiere