Lisbon's Indie Film Fest, from Stillman to Cannes-Bound De Oliveira's Last Film

Portuguese cinema falls into two camps: film that looks out on the world and sees strife, hardship, resilience, and the broken threads of history, and film that looks inward at itself, to dwell upon past titans and the meta-narratives of the medium. Some, of course, attempt to reside in both camps -- such as critics’ darling Miguel Gomes, whose six-hour opus “Arabian Nights” will be unveiled in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes later this month. These two strands, though, find their fitting allegories in the dual character of Portugal’s jagged capital: Lisbon, flattened in 1755 by a deadly earthquake, boasts both a labyrinth of hilly streets and longer, more even thoroughfares....

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