2025 yn ôl Claire Vaughan ein Rheolwr Rhaglen Sinema

Sinners
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Ryan Coogler

Mae dau efell yn ceisio cychwyn lleoliad dan arweiniad y gymuned Ddu yn Mississippi yn y 1930au, ond mae grym dieflig am atal hynny.

"I saw this when it was first released back in April and haven’t stopped thinking about it, I think it’s an extraordinary achievement: entertaining, thought-provoking and beautifully made. A musical, a period thriller with elements of horror, unlike anything else. It deserves all the awards – Michael B. Jordan’s performance as both twins is incredible, but everyone here is doing wonderful work and Miles Caton is an exciting new find. A powerful film playing with history and myth."

It Was Just An Accident
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Jafar Panahi

Ffilm gyffro foesol am grŵp o ddinasyddion Iran a oedd ar un adeg yn garcharorion gwleidyddol sy'n cael cyfle i ddial.

"Iranian cinema has been under attack for decades, and Panahi keeps making wonderful films skewering the repressive regime. This year, there was also The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof, a paranoid thriller which talks about young women fighting against the family patriarch as he becomes increasingly unhinged. Panahi’s pipped this because I have not stopped thinking about the ending since seeing it a few months ago. Panahi is able to make metaphors intensely relatable and his films get under your skin."

The Mastermind
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Kelly Reichardt

Mae dyn yn gadael ei deulu er mwyn ffoi ar ôl lladrad celf yn hytrach na wynebu canlyniadau ei weithredoedd.

"I have loved Kelly Reichardt since seeing Old Joy in Chapter in 2006. I love her quietly devastating filmmaking. These little stories about fallible, ordinary humans that don’t seem dramatic on the surface but over the course of the film the weight of their stories penetrate you. This one, with the wonderful Josh O’Connor, is set in the 1970s but says a lot about how life feels today."

28 Years Later
Cyfarwyddwyd gan Danny Boyle, ysgrifennwyd gan Alex Garland

Mae cymuned o oroeswyr y firws cynddaredd yn darganfod cyfrinachau coll am yr hyn sydd wedi digwydd ar y tir mawr ar ôl cenhedlaeth o apocalyps. Ffilm gyffro sombi am Brydain ar ôl Brexit.

"This film was a wonderful surprise. The original 28 Days Later was part of Danny Boyle’s imperial period, where he was deftly moving from film to film, reinventing how we thought British film existed within genre films. Since then he’s diversified into so many other projects (Olympics, reinventing Frankenstein for the National Theatre). The expectation was that this would just be another sequel, but the evocative reading of a Kipling poem on the trailer signalled that this would be something else. A deeply meditative, moving film with the thrills of a horror film and the deep surreality of Weird Britain (including Teletubbies, Jimmy Saville) and a comment on the increased isolation of Britain from our European neighbours."

Sorry, Baby
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Eva Victor

Mae darlithydd prifysgol yn cael trafferth ymdopi â bywyd yn symud ymlaen ar ôl digwyddiad trawmatig.

"A delicate, moving drama, told unconventionally. Eva Victor as Agnes and Naomie Ackie as her best friend Lydie play the relationship so perfectly, it feels completely authentic. A terrible thing happens to Agnes which shifts her in time to her peers and you feel that pain of things changing in your twenties when you’re not ready for them to change. Eva Victor who wrote, directed and stars in the film, is an exciting new talent."

A Real Pain
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Jesse Eisenberg

Mae cefndryd yn ailuno ar gyfer taith yr holocost ond mae tensiynau'n codi ynghylch hanes eu teulu. Comedi am drawma cenedlaethau.

"Back at the start of the year, amongst the bombast of biopics and epic dramas, came a 90 minute film that picked at family relationships and big ideas about how we deal with the haunting of the wrongs of the 20th century in our everyday lives in a way that was so deft, its comedy so light, that you didn’t notice how moving it was. A magic trick of a film with incredible performances from Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg and Will Sharpe."

Memoir of a Snail
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Adam Elliott

Stori animeiddiedig chwerwfelys am fenyw ifanc unig sydd ag obsesiwn am falwod sy'n dioddef anffawd ar ôl anffawd, ond sy’n dod o hyd i'w ffrindiau.

"An idiosyncratic, gorgeously detailed stop-motion animation about an outsider, this is a weird and wonderful film. In Chapter we have worked with the animation community for many years and it was joy to host Adam Elliott here, meeting a man who seemed like a character from his films made into a real boy. The frankly funny Australian sensibilities oozes off the screen, but it’s the film’s compassion and heart that sits with you long after you’ve seen it."

One Battle After Another
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan Paul Thomas Anderson

Mae mudiad chwyldroadol tanddaearol yn cael ei atgyfodi ar ôl i'r genhedlaeth nesaf benderfynu ymladd eto.

"Adapted from a novel about the breakdown of the 1970s counter-culture movement, this thrilling drama is like Paul Thomas Anderson sticking a pin in 2025 and putting it on screen. A film full of angry energy and multiple storylines climaxing with one of the most exciting car chases ever seen on screen."

Nickel Boys
Cyfarwyddwyd ac ysgrifennwyd gan RaMell Ross

Mae cyfeillgarwch yn datblygu rhwng dau ddyn ifanc Du sy'n ceisio dygymod â phrofiad erchyll mewn ysgol i blant drwg.

"Anyone who saw RaMell Ross’ beautiful documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening was excited about whatever he would choose to do next. I was apprehensive as his deep work with the community in Alabama, that made that film such an achievement, is difficult to follow up, especially in narrative film. But Ross took a sidestep, using a non-fiction book as a jumping off point to putting us in the literal point of view of these children in a reform school during a time of racial segregation, pulling us tightly into their world. This conceptual leap is unconventional storytelling but never feels like a gimmick, it creates a profoundly moving and powerful drama with moments of joy and hope."

Pavements
Cyfarwyddwyd gan Alex Ross-Perry

Ffilm ffug-ddogfennol chwareus am y band roc o'r 90au Pavement.

"One of the first things I bought in a record shop was a Pavement album. They are my favourite band of all time, so I was naturally excited and nervous about a film about them. I’d heard that there was a biopic coming out starring one of the lads from Stranger Things and Jason Schwartzman, I’d also heard that there was some sort of jukebox musical and friends in LA had visited an exhibition… all of these were true and not true. If you’re going to make a film about one of the most inventive, smart, mischievous and heartfelt bands of all time, this is the way to do it. Alex Ross-Perry found a way to film a dance about architecture."