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.

Hiroshima 1914-2006

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.

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.

Everywhere in the parks and on the river bank of the Osaka river one sees blue tents or barracks covered with blue plastic tarps - at times scattered throughout the park area, sometimes lined up in rows, or united to form small communities. The term homelessness only insufficiently describes the situation of these No-jukusha - the campers in the rough. Without any budget and only the simple camera at the place the reason to start the documentary was the threat of evictions of homeless tents from parks. Now the film is used in Osaka as a tool against new evictions by No-juku-sha, andbecame a vehicle of articulation for those who live outside of the Japanese society.

In Brasil, “Quilombo Country,” a documentary film shot on digital video, provides a portrait of rural communities called “quilombos” in Brazil, which were either founded by runaway slaves or begun from abandoned plantations. As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today. Largely unknown to the outside world, today these communities struggle to preserve a rich heritage born of resistance to oppression.

As you leave behind the Pacific coast and penetrate deep into the Amazonian jungle, crossing into the Andes, you come across: healers, vegetalists, shamans... old men with knowledge of their traditions and of our times. Free, hospitable and very graceful, they agree to show you their most highly valued treasures. What does a healing represent? Land and art intertwine through the mountain range and the jungle in this adventure packed with intimate goes beyond the known to the unknown aspects of being.

Historically, Cauca's indigenous movement has gone through times of war in which it was forced to use the right to civil violent resistance in response to attacks by armed groups. Now, it is a peaceful movement focused on respect for life and everything that makes it possible.

Documenting the steadfast movement against intellectual property, Part 1 of Steal This Film takes account of the prominent players in the Swedish piracy (copyright infringement) culture: The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau), and The Pirate Party. It includes a critical analysis of the legal action taken by the Hollywood film industry to leverage economic sanctions by the United States government on Sweden through the WTO, in order to pressure Swedish police into conducting an illegal search and seizure for the purpose of disrupting a competitive distribution channel: The Pirate Bay tracker for P2P Internet file sharing with the BitTorrent protocol.