Walter Salles’ feature film competes for Best Film, Best International Film and Best Actress for Fernanda Torres at the 2025 Oscars
I’m Still Heremost recent feature by Walter Salles(Central Brazil), which competes in three categories at the 2025 Oscars, continues to be a success at the box office and, in its second week in theaters in the United States, made US$240,000, reaching US$434,300, almost half a million dollars raised . The information is from Deadline.
The news comes shortly after the International Press Academy, responsible for Satellite Awardsreward Fernanda Torres(Slaps & Kisses), protagonist of the film, as Best Actress in a Drama Film in its 2025 edition.
The winners were announced last Sunday, January 26th, and the actress beat names like Angelina Jolie (Maria Callas), Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun) and Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door) to achieve victory.
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What is the story of I’m Still Here?
Based on the book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I’m Still Hereis set in Rio de Janeiro, in the early 1970s, amid the military dictatorship, and tells the story of Eunicemother of five children, who becomes involved in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubensbe taken away by undercover police officers and disappear.
In addition to Fernanda Torresthe film also features Fernanda Montenegro (The Invisible Life), Selton Mello (The Movie of My Life), Maeve Jinkings (Toll), Antonio Saboia (Private Destination), Humberto Carrão (Marighella) and Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure) in the cast. Watch the trailer:
Rolling Stone Brazil film special
Cinema is the theme of the new printed special from Rolling Stone Brazil. In a magazine dedicated to lovers of the seventh art, we interviewed Francis Ford Coppolawho turns 85 amid the release of his new film, Megalopolisa bold and million-dollar undertaking financed by himself.
Unshakable in the face of controversial reactions to the novelty, which took around 40 years to get off the ground, the filmmaker defends the cinema industry’s boldness in being creative and opens up, in plain Portuguese, about Brazil’s influence in his new film: “Alegria” .
The special also features conversations with Walter Salles, Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello on I’m Still Herea chat about soundtracks with the maestro João Carlos Martinsan exclusive list with the 100 best films in history (50 national, 50 international), another list with the 101 greatest soundtracks in the history of cinema, a warm-up for Oscar 2025 and the release radar of Globoplay, Globo Filmes, O2 Play and O2 Filmes for the coming months.
The movie special Rolling Stone Brazil It is already on newsstands, but can also be purchased at the Perfil publisher’s store for R$29.90. Check it out:
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SOURCE:Deadline
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Source: Rollingstone

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