Susana de Sousa Dias

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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo TrailerAlmada Negreiros Vivo, Hoje Trailer

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon in 1962. She completed a thesis in Aesthetics and Art Philosophy and holds University degrees both in Painting (Lisbon University) and Cinema (National School of Theatre and Cinema). She studied music at the National Conservatory of Music and is currently preparing a PhD in Aesthetics, Art Science and Technology (University Paris 8). Susana is presently working on a theoretical and practical research in the field of the relationships between Cinema and Contemporary Art with a special focus on archive. She is lecturer at Lisbon University of Fine Arts. In 2001 she founded the production company KINTOP. Her film Natureza Morta - Visages d'une dictature (2005) has been shown in Festivals and screenings in five continents, and won several awards (Prémio Atalanta Filmes at DocLisboa 2005, Merit Price at Taiwan International Documentary Festival, in 2006, Honorary Mention at the Slow Film Festival, Hungry in 2007). Obscure Light (documentary feature) and Natureza Morta - Stillleben (installation on three screens) are the works she is presently working on.

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Total trailers found: 13

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo Trailer (2016)

29 October 2016

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction.

O Segredo das Pedras Vivas Trailer (2016)

10 September 2016

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred rituals.

The Emissaries of Khalom Trailer (1988)

10 March 1988

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom.

Still Life Trailer (2005)

14 May 2005

Within one image, another one is always hiding. Wordless and using only archive footage, "Still Life" aims to rediscover and delve into the opacity of images (news, war footage, propaganda documentaries, photos of political prisoners and never seen before rushes) made during the 48 years (1926-1974) of Portuguese dictatorship in order to foster new interpretations.

48 Trailer (2010)

01 December 2010

Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), this documentary aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime sought to sustain its existence throughout 48 years.

Obscure Light Trailer (2017)

21 April 2017

Mingling identity photos taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from the children of an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that recreates as faithfully as possible the feeling of a family's broken identity.

Journey to the Sun Trailer (2021)

17 November 2021

Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war.

Almada Negreiros Vivo, Hoje Trailer (1969)

24 October 1969

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his former poetic and philosophical works.

Obscure Night - "Ain't I a Child?" Trailer (2025)

07 April 2025

After having walked the streets of Mellila, Malik, Mehdi, and Hassan now beat the cobblestones of Paris, discovering its lights and its chimeras, its joys and its violence.

Fordlândia Panacea Trailer (2025)

16 November 2025

In 1928, industrialist Henry Ford built a company town in the Brazilian jungle and established a rubber plantation.

Criminal Case 141/53 Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying.

Fordlandia Malaise Trailer (2025)

16 August 2025

Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928.

Post Criminal Case Trailer (2025)

15 November 2025

In 2000, Susana de Sousa Dias made Criminal Case 141/53, about the sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima, who resisted a 1950s’ Portuguese law that prohibited nurses from marrying.