The singer and songwriter Gilberto Gil is part of Lula da Silva's portfolio, as Minister of Culture in Brazil since 2003. At the age of 63, he rises early to go to the Ministry and stays up late, strumming his guitar. He began his career as a bossa-nova musician, but immediately started to compose music with a social content which reflected a political concern. Committed to his music, he wanted to prove that he would continue to favour the underprivileged while in office, in a country with extensive social inequality. This documentary invites you to penetrate into the life of this character: we shall accompany him through his day-to-day work routine, varying between a yoga session and a trip in an official car, or a stroll through run-down areas and a practise session with his musical group. We will also get to know his most intimate aspects, such as his stay in prison or his relationship with women. Do not miss the story of this multifaceted musician who reached the highest echelons of Brazilian politics without removing his guitar from his shoulder.

Dora Dolz’ playful, down-to-earth and accessible work and personality appeals to people from all walks of life. She is a ‘working-class hero’ and a diva at the same time. She migrated from Spain to the Netherlands in 1965. Her capacity to develop from an isolated outsider to an ‘insider’ is a universal phenomenon among expatriates who sometimes have to fight harder, inwardly as well as outwardly, than the local people.

for over thirty years, Dora Dolz’ many-sided, trend-setting artwork and monumental ceramics have put an indelible stamp on the Dutch and international art scene. She is currently at the apex of her creative life. The film’s purpose is not to mystify her life, but to show it as an example of how one can have a ‘light’ approach to the weight of reality.

This sparkling film lifts the tip of the veil from the bountiful art and soul of Dora Dolz.

This is the story of an ordinary woman who died in 1997: Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita.

Her story would have gone unnoticed even to her own family, had her daughter Daisy not decided to write about it. Daisy understood that she did not have to visit any library to find out about discrimination against black people in Cuba. By her side;on her rocking chair would her mother Reyita, the granddaughter of an Angolan slave brought to work on the sugar cane fields.