Illusion, hopes, and faith are weapons that we create to survive in the face of adversity. Religion, superstition and art are spaces where we can develop the concepts created by our imagination to fight suffering.The Cuban citizen is a dreamer, and this film attemps to make a trip towards a real Cuba, as real as its dreams.

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.

In an inhospitable place, immersed in the sands of the marsh and surrounded by the lukewarm rumor of the forests, a hermitage is raised around which the centuries have contemplated the birth of a village. To only 15 kilometers of distance, people from a whole town swear every day, devoting themselves to the only aim to protect, to guard and to venerate the image of the Virgin which that hermitage keeps; beginnig and end of their lives for countless generations

The Lost Village is a documentary work fifty two minutes long, that tries to show the terrible half-framed of feelings and passions that converge in this singular relation, whose magnetism attracts million of people from the congregation worldwide every year to bow down to the image of a Virgin who represents one of the most powerful lungs of the “Mariano Phenomenon” and the Catholic Church in our days.