A superb celebration of cinema begins today with the start of the annual film festival at Cardigan's Theatr Mwldan.

The festival of international films boasts something for everyone. It features a wide variety of films and genres on an array of subjects. It is being billed as: "the best way in West Wales to enjoy a feast of fabulous films in their full glory on the big screen".

If you fancy an afternoon off work, reduced rate matinee tickets costing only £3.50 are on sale for all weekday, afternoon performances.

Some highlights of the first week of the 14 day festival include: Stranger Than Fiction (12A) starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman. Harold Crick suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.

Pan's Labyrinth (15) is an exhilarating and beautiful fairytale for grown ups from Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Blade 2). Ofelia, a young girl in 1940s Spain, lives in an imaginary world populated by fantastical creatures. Via her conversations with creatures such as Pan, she comes to terms with life under Franco's Fascist Regime. This multi award winning film is the product of del Toro's vast imagination, and has been hailed as a masterpiece.

Unconscious (15) is Theatr Mwldan Film Society's choice is. It is a distinctive, quirky Spanish comedy set in Barcelona in 1913 against a modernist backdrop of Sigmund Freud's theories and Gaudi's architecture. With both feet firmly rooted in farce, this part-mystery, part-romance has a great cast with genuine on-screen chemistry.

Neil Young: Heat of Gold (PG) is filmmaker Jonathan Demme's (Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs) intimate musical portrait of singer songwriter Neil Young. Young is accompanied onstage by many long time musical companions, including country star Emmylou Harris, Neil's wife Pegi Young, and steel guitarist Ben Keith.

Red Road (18) is the acclaimed debut of Scottish Director Andrea Arnold. A CCTV surveillance operator in Glasgow glimpses a man from her past on one of her monitors and decides to track him down. A riveting tale of revenge, this film is compulsive viewing, and examines the darker side of life and female desire.

Marie Antoinette (12A) is giddy, gilded film making from Sofia Coppola. Her portrait of the exuberant, cocooned world of the young Marie Antoinette is set to a rocking soundtrack and successfully evokes the feeling of being lost in a world of regal ritual and stifling etiquette.

For details of times, dates and for complete festival listings go to www.mwldan.co.uk, phone the Box Office on 01239 621200 or pick up a Theatr Mwldan brochure.