Scottish Documentary Institute Movies

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

A portrait of the planned community of Surprise, Arizona.

Kela was abandoned as a child in Bangladesh and adopted by a British family. Twenty-five years later, she returns for the first time.

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

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

The story of Rudolph Hess's mysterious 1941 flight to Scotland.

Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but...

A Scottish street soccer team attempt to make it to the finals of the Homeless World Cup in Austria.

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

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...

In rural Spain, where increasingly villages are left uninhabited, Cari (79) and Vicente (80) get a second chance at teenage love, feeling free to...

Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a...

In a mental health respite house in Scotland, the guests reveal the power that food holds over them.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

An intimate look at the daily happenings in a registrar office in Edinburgh.