Northwest Film Forum

Laurin Felderein's BUILD A SHIP, SAIL TO SADNESS follows Vincent, a solitary young man in a bright red helmet and a blue raincoat (a la Leonard Cohen), as he rides on his yellow moped along the winding roads of the rural Scottish Highlands in a desperate bid to convince the locals to embrace his idea of a traveling discotheque. Driven by messianic determination and an addiction to petrol fumes, he struggles to keep his disintegrating vision afloat amidst the hostile landscape and stubborn indifference of the locals. Accompanied by some of the most heartbreaking pop songs in recent memory, BUILD A SHIP, SAIL TO SADNESS is a sublimely melancholic feature film debut.