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by Susana de Sousa Dias
Documentary, 2009, 93′

What can a portrait photograph reveal about a political system? What can a picture taken 35 years ago tell us about our contemporary society?

Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), 48 aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime seeks to self-perpetuate.

Written, Directed and Edited by: Susana de Sousa Dias
Cinematography: Octávio Espírito Santo
Sound: Armanda Carvalho
Additional Sound: Paulo Cerveira and Valente Dimande
Sound Design: António de Sousa Dias
Sound Mixing: Tiago Matos
Post-production Director: Helena Alves
Executive Producer: Elsa Sertório
Producer: Ansgar Schaefer

Support: ICA and RTP

Festivals and Screenings:

  • [2009] Doclisboa, Festival Internacional de Cinema, Lisboa, [Portugal]
  • [2010] Festival Cinema du Réel 2010, Paris, [França]
  • [2010] Festival “É Tudo Verdade”, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • [2010] Festival Internacional de Cinema de Turim, Itália
  • [2010] Viennale, Viena, [Áustria]
  • [2010] DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, [Alemanha]
  • [2010] Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, [República Checa]
  • [2010] Leeds International Film Festival, ForumDoc BH, [Reino Unido]
  • [2010] Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico de Belo Horizonte, [Brasil]
  • [2010] Istanbul International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, [Turquia]
  • 2010] International Documentary Film Encounter, [Colômbia]
  • [2010] 25 –DocBsAs, [Argentina]
  • [2010] Dockanema, 5.o Festival do Filme Documentário, Maputo, [Moçambique]
  • [2011] Magnificent7 – European Feature Documentary Film Festival, [Sérvia]
  • [2010] A Nous de Voir, [França]
  • III Edição de Cinema Documental “maio.doc”, Cidade da Praia, [Cabo Verde]
  • [2010] Festival Tous en Scène – Todos ao Palco Coordenação das Colectividades Portuguesas de França (CCPF)
  • [2010] Doc’s Kingdom, Seminário Internacional sobre Cinema Documental, Serpa, [Portugal]
  • [2010] 3a Mostra de Documentário de Cabo-Verde
  • [2010] Artistas Portugueses, Tirésias: Vídeos de Artistas Portugueses, Montevideo, [Uruguai]
  • [2010] Villa Arson, Cinéma du Réel “hors les murs”, Nice, [França]
  • [2010] Panorama – Mostra do Documentário Português, Lisboa, [Portugal]
  • [2010] IRI Imagens do Real Imaginado, 7.o Ciclo de Fotografia e Cinema Documental, Porto, [Portugal]
  • [2010] Encontros Cinematográficos, Cineclube da Guarda, [Portugal]
  • [2010] CinéLusoNantes, Nantes University – Semaine des Cinémas de Langues Portugaise, em colaboração com a Association Univers Luso, [França]
  • [2010] La Lanterne Magique, Saint-Denis, [Ilha da Reunião]
  • [2010] Cinéma du Réel “hors les murs”, Cairo, [Egipto]
  • [2010] Offmostoles – CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, [Espanha]
  • [2010] Festa do Avante!, [Portugal]
  • [2010] Cinéma du Réel “Hors les murs”, Dakar, [Senegal]
  • Comptoir du Doc, Salle des Champs Libres, Rennes, [França]
  • [2010] Semana de África, integrada na III Edição de Cinema Documental “Maio.DOC”, uma extensão do DocLisboa, Cidade da Praia, [Cabo Verde]
  • [2010] Tirésias – Vídeos de Artistas Made in Portugal, Centro Cultural de Espanha, Montevideo, [Uruguai]
  • [2010] Cineclube de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, [Portugal]
  • [2010] PCP Portimão, Evento comemorativo do 89 anos, Portimão, [Portugal]
  • [2010] Scam, mostra do palmarés do Cinéma du Réel, Paris, [França]
  • [2010] Cinéma Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Rencontre Europeene d’analyse des societes Polititiques, Paris, [França]
  • [2011] Magnificent7 European Feature Documentary Film Festival, [Sérvia]
  • [2010] Punto de Vista – Festival Internacional de Documentário, Pamplona, [Espanha]
  • [2011] Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, [França]
  • [2011] Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, [Argentina]
  • [2013] Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge,[Reino Unido]
  • [2013] Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, [USA]
  • [2016] Cine Teatro grandolense, Grândola, [Portugal]
  • [2016] Queen’s Theatre, Belfast, [Grã-Bretanha]
  • [2016] Kino-Palais, Buenos Aires, [Argentina]
  • [2016] Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, [Ucrânia]
  • [2016] Cinema Ifal, Cidade do México, [México]
  • [2017] “O que pode uma imagem”, Seminário Internacional de Cinema, Centro Cultural Tabakalera, San Sebastian, [Espanha]
  • [2017] Festival de Cine Documental de Bogotá, [Colômbia]
  • [2017] Dissent, Centro Cultural STUK, Lovaina, [Bélgica]
  • [2018] Left Bank Film Club, Tel Aviv, [Israel]
  • [2018] Fotografia em Fuga, Sines [Portugal]
  • [2022], Colgate University, EUA;
  • [2022] Hamilton, EUA;
  • [2023] Arsenal-Institut for Film and Videoart, Berlin, Germany

Participation in International Art Exhibitions:

  • [2011] Selecção Oficial PhotoEspaña, video installation 48, Matadero Madrid [Spain]
  • [2012] Exhibition “Reading Loss”, video installation 48, Halle 14 [Germany]
  • [2017] Documenta 14 Kassel-Athens (Keimena program)
  • [2018] Do Tirar Polo Natural – Inquérito ao Retrato Português, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, video installation 48 [Portugal]

TV broadcasts:

  • TV Cine, Portugal
  • RTP
  • ERT, Greece

Editions on DVD:

  • 2011, Alambique
  • 2016, Público andAlambique
  • Cinéma du Réel, France, GRAND PRIX 2010
  • Opus Bonum Award, Jihlava 2010
  • FIPRESCI Award, Dok Leipzig 2010
  • Don Quijote Award 2010, City of Coimbra 2010 Grand Prix
  • Mention of the Jury, Punto de Vista, 2011
  • First Prize, International Competition of the VII International Independent Film Festival of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2011

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon, in 1962. She has a Doctorate in Fine Arts (Audiovisual), a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, a degree in Painting and a bachelors degree in Cinema. She studied music at the National Conservatory. Among her works are “Natureza Morta – Visages d’une dictature” (2005, Atalanta Prize, TaiwanIDF), “48” (2009, Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI prize, among others), Still Life | Stilleben (installation, 2010) and “Obscure Light” (2017). Fordlandia Malaise (2019) is her most recent film.

Susana’s works were exhibited at international film festivals and exhibitions (Viennale, Visions du Réel, Sarajevo IFF, Torino FF, PhotoEspaña, Documenta, etc.). In 2012 she received a tribute from Cinéma du Réel and was a guest artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York. That same year she formed a group that directed the Doclisboa, International Film Festival for two consecutive editions (2012-2013). She is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon.

⤍ Press Book (EN / PDF / 2 MB)
⤍ Press Book  (EN / PDF / 3 MB)
⤍ Press Book  (EN / ZIP / 2 MB)
⤍ Poster (PT / JPG/ 250 KB)

Synopsis

What can a portrait photograph reveal about a political system? What can a picture taken 35 years ago tell us about our contemporary society?

Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), 48 aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime seeks to self-perpetuate.

Credits

Written, Directed and Edited by: Susana de Sousa Dias
Cinematography: Octávio Espírito Santo
Sound: Armanda Carvalho
Additional Sound: Paulo Cerveira and Valente Dimande
Sound Design: António de Sousa Dias
Sound Mixing: Tiago Matos
Post-production Director: Helena Alves
Executive Producer: Elsa Sertório
Producer: Ansgar Schaefer

Support: ICA and RTP

Festivals & Screenings
  • Festivals and Screenings:
    • [2009] Doclisboa, Festival Internacional de Cinema, Lisboa, [Portugal]
    • [2010] Festival Cinema du Réel 2010, Paris, [França]
    • [2010] Festival “É Tudo Verdade”, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
    • [2010] Festival Internacional de Cinema de Turim, Itália
    • [2010] Viennale, Viena, [Áustria]
    • [2010] DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, [Alemanha]
    • [2010] Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, [República Checa]
    • [2010] Leeds International Film Festival, ForumDoc BH, [Reino Unido]
    • [2010] Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico de Belo Horizonte, [Brasil]
    • [2010] Istanbul International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, [Turquia]
    • 2010] International Documentary Film Encounter, [Colômbia]
    • [2010] 25 –DocBsAs, [Argentina]
    • [2010] Dockanema, 5.o Festival do Filme Documentário, Maputo, [Moçambique]
    • [2011] Magnificent7 – European Feature Documentary Film Festival, [Sérvia]
    • [2010] A Nous de Voir, [França]
    • III Edição de Cinema Documental “maio.doc”, Cidade da Praia, [Cabo Verde]
    • [2010] Festival Tous en Scène – Todos ao Palco Coordenação das Colectividades Portuguesas de França (CCPF)
    • [2010] Doc’s Kingdom, Seminário Internacional sobre Cinema Documental, Serpa, [Portugal]
    • [2010] 3a Mostra de Documentário de Cabo-Verde
    • [2010] Artistas Portugueses, Tirésias: Vídeos de Artistas Portugueses, Montevideo, [Uruguai]
    • [2010] Villa Arson, Cinéma du Réel “hors les murs”, Nice, [França]
    • [2010] Panorama – Mostra do Documentário Português, Lisboa, [Portugal]
    • [2010] IRI Imagens do Real Imaginado, 7.o Ciclo de Fotografia e Cinema Documental, Porto, [Portugal]
    • [2010] Encontros Cinematográficos, Cineclube da Guarda, [Portugal]
    • [2010] CinéLusoNantes, Nantes University – Semaine des Cinémas de Langues Portugaise, em colaboração com a Association Univers Luso, [França]
    • [2010] La Lanterne Magique, Saint-Denis, [Ilha da Reunião]
    • [2010] Cinéma du Réel “hors les murs”, Cairo, [Egipto]
    • [2010] Offmostoles – CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, [Espanha]
    • [2010] Festa do Avante!, [Portugal]
    • [2010] Cinéma du Réel “Hors les murs”, Dakar, [Senegal]
    • Comptoir du Doc, Salle des Champs Libres, Rennes, [França]
    • [2010] Semana de África, integrada na III Edição de Cinema Documental “Maio.DOC”, uma extensão do DocLisboa, Cidade da Praia, [Cabo Verde]
    • [2010] Tirésias – Vídeos de Artistas Made in Portugal, Centro Cultural de Espanha, Montevideo, [Uruguai]
    • [2010] Cineclube de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, [Portugal]
    • [2010] PCP Portimão, Evento comemorativo do 89 anos, Portimão, [Portugal]
    • [2010] Scam, mostra do palmarés do Cinéma du Réel, Paris, [França]
    • [2010] Cinéma Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Rencontre Europeene d’analyse des societes Polititiques, Paris, [França]
    • [2011] Magnificent7 European Feature Documentary Film Festival, [Sérvia]
    • [2010] Punto de Vista – Festival Internacional de Documentário, Pamplona, [Espanha]
    • [2011] Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, [França]
    • [2011] Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, [Argentina]
    • [2013] Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge,[Reino Unido]
    • [2013] Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, [USA]
    • [2016] Cine Teatro grandolense, Grândola, [Portugal]
    • [2016] Queen’s Theatre, Belfast, [Grã-Bretanha]
    • [2016] Kino-Palais, Buenos Aires, [Argentina]
    • [2016] Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, [Ucrânia]
    • [2016] Cinema Ifal, Cidade do México, [México]
    • [2017] “O que pode uma imagem”, Seminário Internacional de Cinema, Centro Cultural Tabakalera, San Sebastian, [Espanha]
    • [2017] Festival de Cine Documental de Bogotá, [Colômbia]
    • [2017] Dissent, Centro Cultural STUK, Lovaina, [Bélgica]
    • [2018] Left Bank Film Club, Tel Aviv, [Israel]
    • [2018] Fotografia em Fuga, Sines [Portugal]
    • [2022], Colgate University, EUA;
    • [2022] Hamilton, EUA;
    • [2023] Arsenal-Institut for Film and Videoart, Berlin, Germany

    Participation in International Art Exhibitions:

    • [2011] Selecção Oficial PhotoEspaña, video installation 48, Matadero Madrid [Spain]
    • [2012] Exhibition “Reading Loss”, video installation 48, Halle 14 [Germany]
    • [2017] Documenta 14 Kassel-Athens (Keimena program)
    • [2018] Do Tirar Polo Natural – Inquérito ao Retrato Português, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, video installation 48 [Portugal]

    TV broadcasts:

    • TV Cine, Portugal
    • RTP
    • ERT, Greece

    Editions on DVD:

    • 2011, Alambique
    • 2016, Público andAlambique
Awards
  • Cinéma du Réel, France, GRAND PRIX 2010
  • Opus Bonum Award, Jihlava 2010
  • FIPRESCI Award, Dok Leipzig 2010
  • Don Quijote Award 2010, City of Coimbra 2010 Grand Prix
  • Mention of the Jury, Punto de Vista, 2011
  • First Prize, International Competition of the VII International Independent
  • Film Festival of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2011
Susana de Sousa Dias

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon, in 1962. She has a Doctorate in Fine Arts (Audiovisual), a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, a degree in Painting and a bachelors degree in Cinema. She studied music at the National Conservatory. Among her works are “Natureza Morta – Visages d’une dictature” (2005, Atalanta Prize, TaiwanIDF), “48” (2009, Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI prize, among others), Still Life | Stilleben (installation, 2010) and “Obscure Light” (2017). Fordlandia Malaise (2019) is her most recent film.

Susana’s works were exhibited at international film festivals and exhibitions (Viennale, Visions du Réel, Sarajevo IFF, Torino FF, PhotoEspaña, Documenta, etc.). In 2012 she received a tribute from Cinéma du Réel and was a guest artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, New York. That same year she formed a group that directed the Doclisboa, International Film Festival for two consecutive editions (2012-2013). She is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon.

Press Kit

⤍ Press Book (EN / PDF / 2 MB)
⤍ Press Book  (EN / PDF / 3 MB)
⤍ Press Book  (EN / ZIP / 2 MB)
⤍ Poster (PT / JPG/ 250 KB)

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