2025 Features

Pillion

Young naïve gay man meets sexy leather biker, and surrenders himself to desire, discipline and total control.
This screening is a Welsh premiere and will be attended by some special guests!

DIRECTOR:

Harry Lighton

PRODUCER:

Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge

WRITER:

Harry Lighton

CAST:

Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Lesley Sharp

RELEASE YEAR:

2025

UK, 103 mins, Rating: 18

Screening: Sun 19 Oct, 8pm @Chapter


Colin, a young gay man living with his parents meets the older Ray, a handsome leader of a biker gang. The two embark on a BDSM relationship, where Colin serves Ray completely, cooking and cleaning for the older man, and going as far as to sleep on the floor. However, Colin’s parents begin asking questions, wanting to meet Ray, and are afraid by how little their son seems to know about the man. As life changes around Colin, he must face his relationship with Ray and claim agency of his own.


Mae Colin, dyn hoyw ifanc sy’n byw gyda’i rieni, yn cwrdd â’r Ray hŷn, arweinydd gang beicwyr. Mae’r ddau yn cychwyn perthynas BDSM, lle mae Colin yn gwasanaethu Ray yn llwyr, gan goginio a glanhau i’r dyn hŷn, a mynd cyn belled â chysgu ar y llawr. Fodd bynnag, mae rhieni Colin yn dechrau gofyn cwestiynau, eisiau cwrdd â Ray, ac yn ofni pa mor ychydig mae eu mab yn ymddangos i’w wybod am y dyn. Wrth i fywyd newid o amgylch Colin, rhaid iddo wynebu ei berthynas â Ray a hawlio ei awdurdod ei hun.


Harry Lighton is an English film director and screenwriter, whose feature directorial debut Pillion premiered in 2025 at Cannes. Originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire, he began making short films while studying literature at the University of Oxford. His most noted short film, Wren Boys (2017), received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Short Film at the 71st British Academy Film Awards and a BIFA nomination for Best British Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2017.


Mae Harry Lighton yn gyfarwyddwr ffilm a sgriptiwr o Loegr, a chafodd ei ffilm gyntaf fel cyfarwyddwr Pillion ei dangos am y tro cyntaf yn 2025 yng Ngwobrau Ffilm Cannes. Yn wreiddiol o Portsmouth, Hampshire, dechreuodd wneud ffilmiau byrion wrth astudio llenyddiaeth ym Mhrifysgol Rhydychen. Derbyniodd ei ffilm fer fwyaf nodedig, Wren Boys (2017), enwebiad Gwobr BAFTA am y Ffilm Fer Orau yng Ngwobrau Ffilm yr Academi Brydeinig 71ain ac enwebiad BIFA am y Ffilm Fer Brydeinig Orau yng Ngwobrau Ffilm Annibynnol Prydain 2017.


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