
Ansgar Schaefer
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).
Filmography
[2021] Journey to the Sun