30/6/2015 - Filmmaker Errol Morris will be the central guest of the 28th IDFA

American director Errol Morris will be this year's central guest at the 28th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. This means that as well as being the central focus of a retrospective, and the host of a masterclass, he will also be compiling a special Top 10 documentary films that will be screened throughout the festival.

Errol Morris was born in New York in 1948. He made is documentary debut in 1978 with his documentary about the world of pet cemeteries, named Gates of Heaven. 

Among his most celebrated works, The Thin Blue Line (1988), a work about a murder case that resulted in the quashing of the death sentence imposed at its trial, and one regarded as groundbreaking in the use of reconstruction in the documentary filmmaking form. Other titles of his include A Brief History of Time (1991) about Stephen Hawking and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, which opened IDFA in 1997.

Other central guests of previous editions of IDFA have included Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Ulrich Seidl.

The 28th IDFA will take place from the 18th to the 29th of November 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Click here to visit their official website for more information.