The fun thing about festivals is how apparently unrelated films suddenly strike up a connection that may not necessarily be the obvious one. I was thinking of bringing…
IndieLisboa has been at the forefront of the “new Brazilian film” lobby in Portugal for a while now: they brought in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s landmark Neighboring Sounds and followed that up with the maybe not as memorable…
The irony seems to me inescapable: I’ve just moved house after a very long time (a process all of us go through but that I truly do not wish on anyone) and I restart my personal writing with a film that begins…
I’ve always found it somewhat weird that Portugal’s current premier film festival is somewhat unable to attract top-tier Portuguese films for its competition. Weird it may be, but you really…