Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

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

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

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

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...

Sean uses the Piano to navigate life on the Autistic Spectrum. As he is drawn into new musical collaborations he must learn to balance his enthusiasm...

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

Following a politically engaged schoolboy from Easterhouse, Scotland in the lead-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

A scientist in a laboratory in Scotland attempts to create synthetic life.

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...

The story of Rudolph Hess's mysterious 1941 flight to Scotland.

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

A portrait of the planned community of Surprise, Arizona.

Breaking from daily reality, a man transforms into Plastic Man – armed with chemicals, ready to set landscape on fire. Is he the destroyer of...

Relatives of Charles Byrne ‘The Irish Giant’ reckon with the legacy of a man both mythologised and misunderstood and the condition that...

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

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...

Through a shared camera, a mother and her young son map the emotional terrain of migration.

In rural Spain, where increasingly villages are left uninhabited, Cari (79) and Vicente (80) get a second chance at teenage love, feeling free to...

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