Journey to the Sun

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.

Ansgar Schaefer is co-founder of Kintop, general-manager (since 2012), producer, and project developer at Kintop. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Portuguese History with a thesis on the subject of Visual History (focus: Portuguese colonial wars). He produced several feature documentaries, such as Fordlandia Malaise (Berlinale 2019), Anything and All ( Locarno Film Festival 2018), Luz Obscura (premiere Cinéma du Réel, Paris 2017), 48 (Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel Paris, OPUS BONUM, Jilhava 2010, FIPRESCI Award Leipzig, 2010, among others, and several multimedia instalations. He codirected and produced the documentaries Journey to the Sun (2021) and The Other War (2010).
He has several national and international publications on Jewish emigration to Portugal during World War II. He recently co-organized the exhibition “Portuguese Forced Workers in Nazi Germany” (Centro Cultural de Belém).