Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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...

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