Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle to screen award-winning documentary “48” by Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias on 8 February, free admission
The 2024/2025 season of the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle has been running since November 2024, hosting cineclub-style sessions to explore the legacies and memories of decolonisation. The next session, scheduled for 8 February, will feature a screening of the award-winning documentary 48 by Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias. The film will be shown at 10:00 a.m. in Auditorium 2 at ISEG (Rua do Quelhas 6, Quelhas Building, 2nd Floor – Cloister), with free admission.
The documentary 48 is based on the archives of the The International and State Defense Police (PIDE) and presents photographs of political prisoners taken during the 48 years of the Portuguese dictatorship (1926–1974). The work unveils the mechanisms through which the authoritarian system sought to perpetuate itself.
Following the screening, there will be a debate featuring artists involved in the making of the documentary, as well as researchers and moderators appointed by CEsA (to be confirmed).
Synopsis of the Documentary 48 (Susana de Sousa Dias, 2010, Portugal, 93 min)
What can a photograph of a face reveal about a political system? What can an image taken more than 35 years ago tell us about the present day? Drawing on a collection of mugshots of political prisoners from the Portuguese dictatorship (1926–1974), 48 seeks to reveal the mechanisms through which an authoritarian system attempted to perpetuate itself.
Credits
Script: Susana de Sousa Dias
Direction: Susana de Sousa Dias
Editing: Susana de Sousa Dias
Cinematography: Octávio Espírito Santo
Sound Design: António de Sousa Dias
Sound: Armanda Carvalho
Additional Sound: Paulo Cerveira and Valente Dimande
Post-Production Direction: Helena Alves
Sound Mixing: Tiago Matos
Colour Correction: Paulo Inês
Production: Kintop | Ansgar Schäfer with support from MC / ICA and RTP
International Sales: Kintop
Distribution in Portugal: Alambique
Awards
Cinéma du Réel – Grand Prix, França, 2010
Opus Bonum Award, Jihlava, 2010
Prémio FIPRESCI, Dok Leipzig, 2010
Prémio D.Quijote, 2010
Grande Prémio Cidade de Coimbra 2010, 2010
Menção do Júri, Punto de Vista, 2011
Grande Prémio Festival Independente Mar del Plata 2011, 2011
Prémio de Montagem, Cineport, 2011
Nomeação para o Prémio Autores 2012 da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, 2012
About the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle
The sessions of the Cinema and Decolonisation Cycle will continue until June 2025, with screenings taking place in Auditorium 2 at ISEG. This initiative runs parallel to the exhibition Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonising the Imagination, on display at the National Museum of Ethnology until 2 November.
Check out the programme below:
Decolonisation must be understood as an ongoing process, one that needs to be embraced and integrated into social, political, cultural, and personal dynamics. The project aims to create an open, dynamic space for sharing memories, narratives, dialogues, and reflections. It is coordinated by researcher Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and curated by researcher and filmmaker Isabel Noronha (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and filmmaker Camilo de Sousa.
Coordination: Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa)
Curation: Isabel Noronha (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and Camilo de Sousa
Scientific Consulting: Isabel Castro Henriques (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa), Joana Pereira Leite (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa), and Ana Mafalda Leite (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa)
Collaboration: Luca Fazzini and João Moreira Silva
Support: CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa
Read more:
48 de Susana de Sousa Dias – Kintop website
Author: CEsA Communication Team (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
Image: Reproduction
