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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A portrait of the planned community of Surprise, Arizona.

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

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

How do you love in isolation? And live in absence? A woman and her daughter strive to answer these questions after a loved one is suddenly removed...

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 look at the architect Owen Luder as one of his most iconic creations - the brutalist car park made famous in the film Get Carter - is scheduled for...

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 portrait of a Scottish village in limbo.

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