ICON: Music Through the Lens

"12 MINUTES" is a series of reports dealing with current issues of companies through activist circles, humanitarian, committed or alternative.

The battle of women working in a sewing workshop in Mitzpeh Ramon Israel.

One hundred years ago, the Luxembourg-based steel giant Arbed - today ArcelorMittal - inaugurated its Brazilian subsidiary called Companhia Siderúrgica Belgo Mineira in the heart of the State of Minas Gerais. At that time, the lack of qualified workforce provoked a massive movement of hundreds of Luxembourgish migrants to Brazil in order to erect a colossal steel plant and its surrounding industrial city, giving birth to the cradle of the Brazilian steel industry. While searching for her own identity, Luxembourg-Brazilian filmmaker and historian Dominique makes a fateful discovery as she comes across João Monlevade, an incredible and oddly familiar tropical version of the industrial south of Luxembourg she grew up in. This staggering revelation pulls her into a fascinating quest behind the curtains of the mythical stories of the Colônia Luxemburguesa. What is this Colônia like? Was it a success story of integration into the Brazilian society - a success story at all?

Pride is a series of short documentaries that follow different artists from Spain and open the doors of their respective studios, learn about their creative processes, find out what has led them to the place they occupy and see how their gaze, influenced by their childhoods, adolescences, experiences within the LGBTQ community is reflected in his work. Pride is a celebration of queer talent, an intimate and optimistic follow-up of the lives of those who have managed not only to make a living from their art, but also to speak openly about their feelings.