Pier Paolo Pasolini is one of cinema's greatest figures. The influence he continues to exert to this day, one of the of the many contradictions surrounding his life, has not yet been fully recognised. Responsible for a challenging, hard-to-classify body of film and literary work, and an equally explosive personality, Pasolini talks calmly, splendid as ever in front of the camera (despite all the uproar and expectations around the shooting of “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom” at the time), as he concisely explains his views on cinema and life. Bertolucci thus achieves a true portrait, allowing Pasolini has to talk about his own work and ideas with the filming of Salo as a starting point, and weaving in an interview by journalist and documentary maker Gideon Bachmann with photos by Deborah Imogen Beer also taken at the set of what would be, due to his early, violent death in 1975, his last film.

Today's aggressive management techniques and the cult of outsourcing and speed have spawned new monster-companies, proud of those very values they had been criticized for. One of them is Office Tiger, a transnational hybrid specializing in document-processing for big enterprises. As with the bubble of start-up dotcoms, there comes a time when work itself takes second place and what matters is the staff's attitude – in part ambition, in part a heroic, self-punishing sense of dedication.

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Above all, Mast Qalandar (Ecstasy) is a look at heterodoxy and a celebration of its existence. Qalandars are a Sufi brotherhood of roaming dervishes who once ranged through an arch that crossed Asia, from Turkey to Pakistan and India. They are characterized by extreme mystical devotion and their revolutionary and anti-dogmatic attitudes within Islam, such as use of hachis and the rejection of alcohol and free submission to Haqq, the truth, which they see as the absence of limits rather than something which narrows and defines horizons. “Mast Qalandar” immerses us in the ritual encounter of these dervishes around the grave of the brotherhood's founder in Pakistan. A vision of heir devotion to “the beloved” that leads them into trance and ecstasy, where death means simply to “draw aside a veil”. Available online until December 27th 2020.

A journey through Beirut's devastated neighbourhoods and some villages in southern Lebanon. The ordinary stories of ordinary people. Women, children and men face the challenge of remaking their lives in the midst of the devastation. 34 days of bombing by Israel have left indelible marks. Hundreds of families have lost their loved ones, a million displaced people return to their devastated houses. The Lebanese people wake from the nightmare full of rage and sorrow. Bombs are heavy, peace has no weight.

Parallel testimonies of Youssoupha, a rap artist and Thomas. Evocation of rap as an object of censorship, often criminalised by successive governments, and as a weapon of political struggle, far removed from the clichés of commercial rap.

A documentary that criticizes Barcelona's mammoth urban restructuring process, which is carried out without the participation of the people who live in and use the city according to a model that chooses to ignore social memory, especially when it comes to the working class. Through the voices of some of the people behind this process, the documentary shows a side to this chapter of the city's history that is usually not presented by the media.

La Makabra is a squatted factory, usually occupied by around fifty people. It is open to the public, and it works as a self-managed cultural centre in Barcelona's Poble Nou district. This is one of the social and artistic collectives affected by 22@, the urban design plan responsible for restructuring the district, which plans to evacuate the building. In spite of this situation the squatters continue performing shows and cabarets, because that is how they use this space, placing creativity up against consumption.