Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

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

In the Basque town of Altsasu, the beds of seven young men lie empty. As the town celebrates its annual festival, Altsasu follows Igone as she copes...

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

A portrait of America as told by three old men fishing on a frozen lake.

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

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 young Ugandan goat herder dreams of being able to read and write but must oppose his elders.

A wind turbine development threatens a hunting estate in the Scottish Highlands.

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

A look at the day to day job of the Tooth Fairy.

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

An Essex church community react to the arrival of a transvestite.

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...

Two friends reflect on their twenty year friendship after an accident leaves one of them with a life changing brain injury.

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...

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

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...

Sebastién is a gay acrobat living for the thrill of the circus. Now the oldest acrobat in the troupe, he fears each show could be his last, as...

Livingston skateboard park became internationally legendary. Forty years on, the park is no longer a favourite. That is until a group of school...

Following a politically engaged schoolboy from Easterhouse, Scotland in the lead-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.