Author Jorge Mourinha

Jean-Luc Godard may not have invented the filmic convergence of la grande Histoire and la petite histoire, of the way that art and, especially, cinema can highlight the intersection between personal history and...

Ten years is always a nice age for any film festival to reach, especially in a country in a deep recession where the investment in culture has shrunk to almost non-existent numbers. It's to its credit that Indi...

Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding new ways to translate it into moving images; the urgency of showing people...

In 1993, critic and essayist Augusto M. Seabra published a prescient column in the daily Público saluting a new generation of Portuguese filmmakers emerging in the short film format, usually little seen out...

Over the course of nine years, DocLisboa has grown in stature into one of the key European shop windows of modern non-fiction film. Lisbon's documentary film festival has become a yearly rendezvous, an opportun...

April 20–30, 2006 What exactly defines “indie cinema” these days? Its subject, its mode of production or of release, its format, its budget, some indefinable melding of all the above? We could hang aroun...