Scottish Documentary Institute

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 and compulsive energy with understanding and compromise, redefining his perspective in the process.

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.

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 from their lives.

A wind turbine development threatens a hunting estate in the Scottish Highlands.

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

In rural Spain, where increasingly villages are left uninhabited, Cari (79) and Vicente (80) get a second chance at teenage love, feeling free to play loud music and dance their lives away. However, the baggage of the past comes in the shape of grief sometimes.

Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but Francis, the current champion has other objectives on his mind.

Through a shared camera, a mother and her young son map the emotional terrain of migration.

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

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

Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a prosthetic leg. It asks what it means for to create an extension to someone else’s body, and the impact this has on both maker and amputee. The film demystifies this unfamiliar space and experience for the viewer, and questioning stereotyping and prejudice widely seen within our society's consideration of body image.

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 death and transforming us in life.

This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an outsider – who is determined to lead a normal life.

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 and Light.

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. That was until Filipino fishermen started coming to town for work. Both nationalities strive to shorten the distance between two very different worlds.

Breaking from daily reality, a man transforms into Plastic Man – armed with chemicals, ready to set landscape on fire. Is he the destroyer of Nature, or the voice of its resilience?

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

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

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