International Documentary Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA ) has named Portuguese filmmaker, curator, and academic Susana de Sousa Dias as its 2025 Guest of Honor. As part of the distinction, the prestigious festival will present a retrospective of her work, and she will choose a Top 10 of films by other directors that she views as particularly important.

Two of the films on de Sousa Dias’s Top 10 list — Monangambé , the 1968 short documentary by Sarah Maldoror and Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) by Harun Farocki – explore “collective memory and filmmakers rewriting their political narratives,” themes consistent with de Sousa Dias’s own work. During the festival, which runs Nov. 13-23 in the Dutch capital, de Sousa Dias will participate in the centerpiece Talk of t

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