'Twilight' tops Lisbon festival

LISBON -- Angelina Nikonova's helming debut, "Twilight Portrait," in regards to a Russian social worker bent on vengeance after being gang raped, won best film in the fifth Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday. Cedric Kahn's cuisine-designed "A Much Better Existence" received the special jury award and also the CineEuropa prize. Special mentions visited Bujar Alimani's Albanian penitentiary love tale "Amnesty" and Joachim Trier's Norwegian drug-rehab pic "Oslo, August 31." Your competition jury was comprised of writers J.M. Coetzee, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt violinist Gidon Kremer and artist Jose Barrias. Career tributes were granted to helmers William Friedkin, Wes Anderson and Leos Carax and cinematographer Peter Suschitzky. David Cronenberg held an expert class, showing a teaser of his forthcoming "Cosmopolis," according to DeLillo's novel and created by Paulo Branco, who also runs the fest. Other visitors in the 10-day event incorporated thesps Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon, Marisa Paredes, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, visual artist Matthew Barney and playwright Peter Handke. The fest increased its screening venues this season to incorporate the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com