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I'm Still Here
Plot
Rio de Janeiro, December 1970. Brazil is under military rule, but the Paiva family home, right across from Leblon beach, is full of joy. Eunice and her husband, former congressman Rubens Paiva, raise their five children surrounded by friends, music, beach days and conversations that run late into the night.
Behind that easygoing routine, Rubens secretly helps people hunted by the regime. The mood in the country darkens after an ambassador is kidnapped, and some friends decide to leave for London, taking the couple's eldest daughter, Vera, with them.
Not long after, in January 1971, plainclothes soldiers enter the house and take Rubens away to "give a statement." He never comes back. From then on, Eunice has to hold the family together, face the authorities' silence and find out what happened to her husband, while keeping her children on their feet. The film tells this true story through her eyes.
Based on the 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui by Marcelo Rubens Paiva
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Awards and nominees
- Oscars 2025 · Best International Feature Film
Beat: Emilia Pérez, Flow, The Girl with the Needle, The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Golden Globes 2025 · Best Actress - Drama · Fernanda Torres
Beat: The Last Showgirl (Pamela Anderson), Maria (Angelina Jolie), Babygirl (Nicole Kidman), The Room Next Door (Tilda Swinton), Lee (Kate Winslet)
Trivia
- It was the first Brazilian film nominated for Best Picture and the first Brazilian production to win an Oscar.
- Fernanda Montenegro plays the older Eunice, and her daughter, Fernanda Torres, plays her younger self. Montenegro had been Oscar-nominated 25 years earlier for Walter Salles' Central Station.
- In Brazil it passed 5 million admissions by February 2025, becoming the top-grossing Brazilian film since the pandemic.
- It was shot on 35mm, with some scenes on Super 8, in Rio and São Paulo over 16 weeks.
Cast
- Eunice PaivaFernanda Torres
- Rubens PaivaSelton Mello
- Eunice Paiva (idosa)Fernanda Montenegro
- Vera PaivaValentina Herszage
- Marcelo Rubens PaivaGuilherme Silveira
- Eliana PaivaLuiza Kosovski
- Nalu PaivaBarbara Luz
- Dalva GasparianMaeve Jinkings
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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