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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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....

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

An exploration of the power of music and words, looking at a blues musician recovering from a stroke.

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

April loves music, dancing, trampolining and swimming, but with sensory difficulties faces challenges in the search for independence as her 16th...

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

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

Through the interspecies gaze we observe one of the most ancient and highly honoured dog breeds, the Saluki. Guiding us in love, preparing us in...

A look at life in the so-called Banana Flats in Leith, Scotland - once the centre of the city's 1980s drug epidemic.

A blind woman prepares to be introduced to her partner's family three thousand miles away.