Scottish Documentary Institute Filmes

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

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

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...

A young Ugandan goat herder dreams of being able to read and write but must oppose his elders.

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...

How has science impacted on our perception of God?

Jodie lives and breathes motorcycling. But the road to reaching the top is paved with difficulties, if it wasn't for her dad's unwavering support.

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

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

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...

A filmmaker based in Scotland travels to Caracas to investigate claims of a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary.

A look at the array of mysterious, quirky objects received by fashion designer Paul Smith and the effect they have had on his life.

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

A look at life in the so-called Banana Flats in Leith, Scotland - once the centre of the city's 1980s drug epidemic.

An intimate insight into the lives of deaf people, navigating a society built for the 'fully abled'.

In the Suburbs of a Scottish Town, the life of a family quietly revolves around one of their sons’ passion for football. 13 year old Darren...

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

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...

Innes spends another bleak winter in the Scottish Highlands, relentlessly killing deer. Over the past twenty years he has planted over a million...