Ashes, Wood and Stardust

The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past, socially committed, who for years has offered outstanding performances.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

"Eletronica:Mentes" takes a look inside the mental world of the Brazilian legends in this field, examining the forces, the experience and the effects of synthetically created noises and their distillation into experimental music.

A deck of cards discovered at an antiques fair reveals the eccentric past of a famous Arabian horse breeder, the photographer and filmmaker Lenita Perroy.

Few artists can claim the historical significance of Jocy de Oliveira. A pioneer of electronic music in Brazil — carrying a weight comparable to such towering figures as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen — she was also a brilliant pianist, performing as a soloist under the direction of Igor Stravinsky.

Highly esteemed poet, influential journalist, intellectual activist, yet hardly remembered. Busy with shaping Dresden's cultural scene during the 1980s and 1990s, the late Bernhard Theilmann forgot to publish anything for people to remember him by.

A Brazilian diplomat realises that he has almost unconsciously assembled a unique and important collection of East German art. Concerned about his country's treatment of culture and feeling responsible for this amazing piece of art history, he has to make up his mind what to do with it.