Songs From the Golden City

The gift of a fridge puts the freeze on love.

In Lift Share, two strangers, one desperate to find her child, the other reluctant to attend the funeral of his estranged violent father, imagine what might await them as they journey towards the haunting beauty of the Outer Hebrides and just maybe, a better future.

Grub, a young surfer, is caught in a conflict between his boss, former surf legend Claw, and his passion for Vanessa, a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Driven by his desire to be tattooed and 'become a man', Grub ignores warnings that Vanessa could be 'Hine Nui Te Po', the Maori sea goddess and mythical 'Eater of Life'. Rebelling against Claw, he is drawn ever deeper into Vanessa's ambiguous world of pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality, until finally the young surfer must face death in order to understand life.

Meet the men who love to make and play cigar box guitars. From post-industrial British towns, they have created a self-identity through making these unique three-stringed guitars.

Director, Virginia Heath's Berlin award winning film. Everything is relative... especially the truth!

In northern England people rediscover the art of building guitars out of everything between a shoe box and an old radio. A portrait of the "Cigar Box Guitar Revolution".

A woman unravels a small town conspiracy of silence surrounding the murder of a hitchhiker and falls in love with a handsome, brooding Maori guy, she increasingly fears may be the killer.

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, a journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote's poetic music and lyrics