Separado! (12A)

Star Trek meets Buena Vista Social Club in this psychedelic western musical as Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) takes us on a pan continental road trip in search of his long lost Patagonian uncle, the poncho wearing guitarist Rene Griffiths. In 1880, following a controversial horse race that led to an unresolved death, Gruff Rhys' family split as Dafydd Jones took his young family to join the burgeoning Welsh community in Patagonia. There was to be no contact between the families for almost a century until 1974 when Rene Griffiths arrived in Wales with his Latin infused Welsh love songs and became an overnight sensation. Director Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys on a tour that takes in the theatres, nightclubs and desert teahouses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his family, the Welsh Diaspora and its musical legacy.

Mae Star Trek yn cofleidio Buena Vista Social Club yn y ffilm gerddorol seicedelig hon wrth i Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) ein tywys ar daith gyfandirol i chwilio am ei ewythr coll o Batagonia, y gitarydd Rene Griffiths. Ym 1880, yn dilyn ras ceffylau dadleuol a marwolaeth e ei ddatrys, bu hollt yn nheulu Gruff Rhys, gyda Dafydd Jones yn mynd â’i dylwyth i gymuned Gymraeg newydd Patagonia. Ni fu unrhyw gyswllt rhwng y ddwy ran o’r teulu am agos at ganrif hyd nes 1974, pan ymddangosodd Rene Griffiths yng Nghymru gyda’i ganeuon serch Cymraeg ag arnynt naws Lladinaidd, a throi’n llwyddiant dros nos. Mae’r cyfarwyddwr Dylan Goch yn dilyn Gruff Rhys ar daith sy’n ymweld â theatrau, clybiau nos a thai te Cymru, Brasil a’r Andes yn yr Ariannin wrth iddo ddarganfod yr hyn ddigwyddodd i’w deulu, y Cymry ar wasgar a’u traddodiadau cerddorol.

Dylan Goch | Gruff Rhys | UK | 2009 | 84’