'Twilight' tops Lisbon festival

LISBON -- Angelina Nikonova's helming debut, "Twilight Portrait," of a Russian social worker bent on vengeance after being gang raped, won best film within the fifth Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday. Cedric Kahn's cuisine-designed "A Far Greater Existence" received the special jury award as well as 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 competitors jury was composed of authors 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 a specialist class, showing a teaser of his forthcoming "Cosmopolis," based on DeLillo's novel and produced by Paulo Branco, who also runs the fest. Other site visitors within 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 elevated its screening venues this year to include the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com