Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

  • 2018
    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    6.42018HD

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

    Becoming Animal
  • 2018
    Freedom Fields

    Freedom Fields

    Freedom Fields

    7.52018HD

    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...

    Freedom Fields
  • 2007
    Ottica Zero

    Ottica Zero

    Ottica Zero

    02007HD

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

    Ottica Zero
  • 2011
    Jimmy

    Jimmy

    Jimmy

    02011HD

    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...

    Jimmy
  • 2012
    Polaris

    Polaris

    Polaris

    02012HD

    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...

    Polaris
  • 2019
    Best Before Death

    Best Before Death

    Best Before Death

    72019HD

    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...

    Best Before Death
  • 2007
    Butterfly

    Butterfly

    Butterfly

    02007HD

    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...

    Butterfly
  • 2022
    TEN MONTHS

    TEN MONTHS

    TEN MONTHS

    02022HD

    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...

    TEN MONTHS
  • 2021
    Harmonic Spectrum

    Harmonic Spectrum

    Harmonic Spectrum

    02021HD

    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...

    Harmonic Spectrum
  • 2021
    Baby Girl

    Baby Girl

    Baby Girl

    02021HD

    Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

    Baby Girl
  • 2020
    Long Live Livi

    Long Live Livi

    Long Live Livi

    02020HD

    Livingston skateboard park became internationally legendary. Forty years on, the park is no longer a favourite. That is until a group of school girls,...

    Long Live Livi
  • 2021
    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    62021HD

    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...

    Against the Tide
  • 2021
    Falhan's Love

    Falhan's Love

    Falhan's Love

    02021HD

    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...

    Falhan's Love
  • 2017
    Libya in Motion

    Libya in Motion

    Libya in Motion

    02017HD

    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...

    Libya in Motion
  • 2020
    Let My Body Speak

    Let My Body Speak

    Let My Body Speak

    02020HD

    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...

    Let My Body Speak
  • 2013
    Nae Pasaran

    Nae Pasaran

    Nae Pasaran

    02013HD

    The true story of a group of factory workers in Scotland who stood up to a military dictatorship in Chile.

    Nae Pasaran