Scottish Documentary Institute Filmes

How has science impacted on our perception of God?

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

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...

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...

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...

Through the interspecies gaze we observe one of the most ancient and highly honoured dog breeds, the Saluki. Guiding us in love, preparing us in...

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....

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.

Alan Sinclair aspires to be a human popsicle, literally. For this film is about the weird and wacky world of cryonics. Instead of burial or cremation...

A film crew travels to the island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland to investigate the curious tale of the discovery on the island of a dead...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

April loves music, dancing, trampolining and swimming, but with sensory difficulties faces challenges in the search for independence as her 16th...

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

Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to...

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