Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

A remote and wild island on the west coast of Scotland is home to a small group of people that live in deep connection with the land, the sea and the...

Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels....

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the...

At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to local shops...

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a...

A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am...

In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football for their nation. But as the country descends into...

Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya from her rejection of the monetary-based...

MIEZI KUMI (TEN MONTHS) is a short documentary of the love between Zacharia Mutai, his family and the last two northern white rhinos, which he has to...

Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the...

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a...

This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an...

Alan Sinclair aspires to be a human popsicle, literally. For this film is about the weird and wacky world of cryonics. Instead of burial or cremation...

Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to...

A unique point-of-view insight into a day in the life of Jimmy McIntosh, a wheelchair user living with cerebral palsy who on a daily basis fights for...

Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are...

An intimate portrait of three parents trying to come to terms with their missing children and struggling to move on with their own lives.

This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an...

A filmmaker explores a neurological condition she has been diagnosed with and its relationship with an incident in her past.