Argentinian director Martín Solá made a film not about what happens in Chechnya, but about the experience of being Chechen. A shockingly beautifully shot and formally stubborn film, it makes it impossible for the viewer not to take the position of a participant, rather than of mere witness. In this poetic documentary Abubakar, a 46-year-old man, takes part in Sufi ritual dances that whip men into ecstasy. There are no explanatory transitions, but the mere joining of these mystic moments with family stories suggests that some kind of hypnosis is necessary, and perhaps even unavoidable, in order to process and simply survive a violent past and a not much more peaceful present. This is part of a trilogy on countries whose sovereignty has yet to be recognized.