Three new additions to One World Online: from an Indian cult to battery-powered sex

Eat, meditate, join a cult

Imagine the following scenario: you're diagnosed with diabetes, so naturally you pack a camera, travel to India in search of life's meaning and somehow end up joining Osho's cult along the way. Norwegian director Gunnar Hall Jensen did exactly that at the turn of the millennium. His documentary Gunnar Goes Comfortable is a gripping and brutally honest video diary of a man who loves motorcycles, women and questionable masculine role models, while drowning in a substantial amount of self-loathing. If you're looking for a spiritual journey among the flood of wellness documentaries, but one that smells less of incense sticks and more of addictive substances and toxic masculinity (which Gunnar defends with disarming humour), this first instalment in a loose trilogy will be right up your street.

"Real men" don't cry (they make a film about it instead)

While we're on the subject of men struggling to come to terms with their inner lives, Scottish director Duncan Cowles faces a somewhat more ordinary, yet equally daunting challenge: his emotions have a chronic habit of staying buried beneath the surface. The deeply ingrained myth of how a "real man" should behave in every situation affected him so profoundly that it took him five years, camera in hand, before he could even tell his own parents that he loved them. In his new documentary Silent Men, he interviews other men who are just as lost when it comes to expressing their feelings. The film walks a fine line between genuine vulnerability and dry Scottish humour filled with pure self-deprecation.

Battery-powered sex

While human relationships are full of complicated emotions, necessary compromises and exhausting swiping on dating apps, the future offers a rather radical shortcut. Why go through all that when you can have a custom-made AI-powered humanoid keeping you company at home? Director Jimmy Mehiel takes his camera straight to the factory floors where these robotic partners are brought into existence. Sex Robot Madness explores, with complete candour, whether this technology is a revolutionary cure for loneliness or simply a full-blown dystopian absurdity.

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