Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

The changing face of a pebble beach on the coast of the English channel serves as a backdrop to compare the long history of sea rescue with the...

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

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

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....

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...

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...

Anne Wallace once had a dream to help Glasgow's street working women. Soon after, a double-decker bus materialised along with the Ministry of Salt...