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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening of the military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. Chosen by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars. Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice. Featured in Mais Você: Episode 3 December 2024 (2024). The Feast of the Holy King Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Starring Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international impact in recent years, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar, I’m Still Here dramatizes the trajectory of the Paiva family between the arrest of Rubens Paiva, the 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, making them worry about the fate of each one, creating three-dimensional, real and credible characters. Fernanda Torres subtly plays the role of her life, almost a tragic Greek heroine, without ever falling into excess or caricature. The detailed set design, the simple script, the natural performances, the carefully selected soundtrack and the precise editing help the director to convey exactly what he intended. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, as well as the reports on it, my attention was focused on the cinematic solutions used by the director. He manages to turn this story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences from all over the world.