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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is torn apart by arbitrary violence in 1971, as Brazil’s military dictatorship tightens its grip. Chosen by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film. in 2025 At the Oscars. Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger!Marta: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Submitted by Mais Você: 2024 December 3 series (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Performed by Tim Maia. The most internationally acclaimed Brazilian film of recent years, which won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar, I’m Still Here dramatizes the Paiva family’s trajectory between Rubens Paiva’s arrest, her father, and Eunice’s struggle after her husband’s disappearance. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them complicit, forcing them to care about everyone’s fate, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of the Greek heroine whose life is almost marked by tragedy with subtlety, never falling into excess or caricature. Detailed scenography, a lean script, natural interpretations, a hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing – everything contributes to the fact that the director could convey exactly what he intended. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film was based, in addition to reports about it, the focus was on the cinematographic decisions used by the director. He manages to turn this particular story into something universal that can connect with audiences anywhere in the world.