CinemaAinda I’m here has chances in BAFTA? Check out Walter Salles’s history at the awards

THE BAFTA Awardsknown as the “British Oscar”, will be broadcast live for the first time in Brazil. The award of British Academy of Cinematographic and Television Arts It happens this Sunday, 16, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

The event will be shown from 16h on the closed TV channel TNT and on the streaming platform Max.

I’m still here competes in the category of Best Film in Non-Handle With Everything we imagine as light, Emilia Pérez, The seed of the sacred fruit and Kneecap.

It’s not the first time Walter Sallesdirector of the Brazilian film, at the ceremony. He won the award for best non-human language film in 1999, for Central do Brasil (1998), and in 2005, by Motorcycle diaries (2004) – The last divided the production with Argentina. The filmmaker was also nominated in the category in 2002, with April Shattering (2001), but lost to Gross loves (2000), from Mexico.

I’m still here he has Emilia Pérez as a great competitor. The French film has won 11 nominations to the prize.

What is the story of I’m still here?

Based on the book of the same name of 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, who gets involved in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubensbe taken by police officers and disappear.

In addition to FERNANDA TORRESthe feature still has Fernanda Montenegro (Invisible life), Selton Mello (The movie of my life), MAEVE JINKINGS (Toll), Antonio Saboia (Particular destination), Humberto Carrão (Marighella) and Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure) In the cast. Watch the trailer:

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