I’m Still Here to represent Brazil at the Oscars; find out everything about the film

“I’m Still Here” will be the Brazilian representative in the Brazilian Film Academy’s 2025 Oscar race. The news comes after the film won the Venice Film Festival award for best screenplay and was included in the selection of 10 international festivals.

Starring Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro, the film directed by Walter Salles will be released in Brazilian theaters on November 7.

“It is a great pride to see our first original film representing Brazil in the competition for an Oscar nomination. We hope that the film will continue to bring much joy to Brazilian audiences, placing the talent of our artists among the best in the world”, celebrates Tatiana Costa, director of Entertainment Channels and News & Content at Globo.

Based on the book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, “I’m Still Here” tells the story of Eunice Paiva, a brave woman who has dedicated her life to finding her husband, former deputy Rubens Paiva, who disappeared during the military dictatorship. The cast includes big names such as Marjorie Estiano, Antônio Saboia, Maeve Jinkings, Humberto Carrão, Dan Stulbach, Valentina Herszage and Olívia Torres.

Already selected for more than 10 international festivals in Brazil, “Still I’m Here” is presented in a limited preview at Cine Glauber Rocha, in Salvador. There, in fact, tickets are sold out until September 25.

Also, you can mark your calendars now: the official premiere in Brazilian cinemas will be on November 7th.

Official Synopsis of “I’m Still Here”

Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. The country faces the hardening of the military dictatorship. We are at the center of a family, the Paiva family: Rubens, Eunice and their five children. They live in front of the beach, in a house with doors open to friends. One day, plainclothes soldiers take Rubens Paiva and he disappears. Eunice, whose search for the truth about her husband’s fate will last decades, is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new future for herself and her children. Based on the biographical book by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the moving story of this family has helped redefine the history of the country.

Source: Terra