Scottish Documentary Institute Movies
- 2018
Becoming Animal
Becoming Animal6.42018HD
A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am Bre...
- 2018
Freedom Fields
Freedom Fields7.52018HD
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 civi...
- 2007
Ottica Zero
Ottica Zero02007HD
Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya from her rejection of the monetary-based system to find...
- 2011
Jimmy
Jimmy02011HD
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...
- 2012
Polaris
Polaris02012HD
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. Tha...
- 2019
Best Before Death
Best Before Death72019HD
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 twelv...
- 2007
Butterfly
Butterfly02007HD
This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an outsider – w...
- 2022
TEN MONTHS
TEN MONTHS02022HD
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...
- 2021
Harmonic Spectrum
Harmonic Spectrum02021HD
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...
- 2021
Baby Girl
Baby Girl02021HD
Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.
- 2020
Long Live Livi
Long Live Livi02020HD
Livingston skateboard park became internationally legendary. Forty years on, the park is no longer a favourite. That is until a group of school girls,...
- 2021
Against the Tide
Against the Tide62021HD
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...
- 2021
Falhan's Love
Falhan's Love02021HD
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 disabled...
- 2017
Libya in Motion
Libya in Motion02017HD
From Tripoli to Benghazi, meet a grandmother sowing the national flag with relish, a young woman determined to become a film director, a fisherman phi...
- 2020
Let My Body Speak
Let My Body Speak02020HD
Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers, it...
- 2013
Nae Pasaran
Nae Pasaran02013HD
The true story of a group of factory workers in Scotland who stood up to a military dictatorship in Chile.