Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

An intimate portrait of three parents trying to come to terms with their missing children and struggling to move on with their own lives.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

In her documentary, the Scottish-Syrian director tries to reconcile the two worlds in her head: her fond memories of visiting relatives in Damascus...

A filmmaker explores a neurological condition she has been diagnosed with and its relationship with an incident in her past.

A woman grieving for the loss of her husband finds solace in the world of psychic mediums.

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...

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...

As a family from a politically and physically divided island, Meray and her father developed extremely opposite views to each other. She travels from...

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...

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

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...

On the North East Coast of Scotland, an extraordinary family have turned the previously derelict Bayview hotel into a place of respite for...

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...