Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias will be the Guest of Honor at documentary festival IDFA , which will take place from Nov. 13 to 23. She will be the subject of a retrospective and will select her top 10 films, the festival said.

The festival has also announced the second instalment of curated program Dead Angle, which focuses on Institutions, and new media program IDFA DocLab.

De Sousa Dias, known for her “singular approach to archival images and cinematic form,” has built “an internationally acclaimed body of work that interrogates dictatorship, colonial legacies, and the fragile terrain of memory,” IDFA said.

Her signature style emerged with “Still Life” (2005), an “archival meditation” on the Portuguese fascist regime Estado Novo, Europe’s longest running dictatorship. I

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