Bydd Yn Wrol (Be Brave)

B.A.F.T.A. Wales - Award for the Best Film, Matthew Rhys (Best Actor Award)

The old-age pensioners of a South Wales town are up in arms. They must fight to save their municipal hall from developers and corrupt councilors. The courageous Arichen is at the center of this 'uncivil' resistance. She is not prepared to hold her tongue in her old age, to bow to her fate or to adapt. And she also manages to enthuse the other 'senior citizens' with this attitude: 'Listen, Henry, Georg and the rest of you geriatrics. My father and brothers helped to build this place. Tywyn and Cedric John. Your swear is mixed in mortar. Will you let pen pushers, who can't even remember last night/s television tell us we have no right to major part of our lives? This place is more than bricks and mortar. It's sweat and blood and strength and effort and a thousand other things worth fighting for.' And so the old people start to flight in their own way. Unexpectedly they are joined by their teenage neighbors whose life of unemployment makes them ready to flight for their valley and their heritage. Together they plan to mobilize public opinion by seeking sponsors, running bazaars and offering super prizes at the local bingo hall. But one suggestion beats everything: 'I propose that Tom Jones comes here to sing.'

'I threw my knickers at him, in 1964.

'If you did that now, he could camp out in them!'

Without giving away too much of the story, it can be said that they succeed in the end in persuading Tom Jones to come. In Wales and on television almost everything is possible.

A comic, moving portrait of a community that learns to work together and the individuals who learn about themselves in the process.

Director: Terry Dyddgen Jones

Screenplay: John Owen
Production: Brian Roberts, HTV, Wales

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