Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

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

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

A filmmaker goes on a personal journey of discovery after an old letter reveals her grandfather's secret life.

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

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

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.

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 Scottish street soccer team attempt to make it to the finals of the Homeless World Cup in Austria.

Kela was abandoned as a child in Bangladesh and adopted by a British family. Twenty-five years later, she returns for the first time.

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

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...

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

A look at the array of mysterious, quirky objects received by fashion designer Paul Smith and the effect they have had on his life.

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 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...

How has science impacted on our perception of God?

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...

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...

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