Mike Hoolboom commented his decision: "But in the end there was one movie whose pictures cut me deeper than the rest. Every image in this film was made by a criminal wearing a police uniform, culled from the secret detention archives of Portugal's police. The filmmaker seeks out these survivors today, and they tell their simple complicated stories, of their torture and disfigurement and survival, in other words, they show me the cost of having a face, the cost of seeing a face like this one. this year the queen of the bottoms must be film named simply '48' by the Portugese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias."
