I saw the film I Am Still Here directed by Walter Salles, written by a dynamic trio including: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, ...

U nfortunately, few mainstream audiences have seen 2025's Best International Feature winner at the Oscars, I'm Still Here, ...

Brazilian movie "I Am Still Here", set against the backdrop of the military dictatorship and recounting the true story of a mother of five whose husband disappears, made history on Sunday by earning ...

In a 2024 interview about his family’s ordeal, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the only son of Rubens and Eunice and the author of the book upon which the film is based, stated that the reason his mother ...

The story behind ‘I’m Still Here’ “I’m Still Here” was inspired by the book “Ainda Estou Aqui” by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, son of the disappeared former congressman Rubens Paiva. More than five decades ...

Most people worry about making sure their kids get into good schools.” Under “competitive authoritarianism,” as defined by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, the mechanisms of democracy remain ...

The Oscar-winning film has reignited national discussions on the dictatorship. With the debate over amnesty resurfacing, ...

“I was the son of a disappeared politician ... Brazil's Supreme Court said earlier this week it will rule whether the sole survivor among Rubens Paiva’s torturers, Gen. José Antônio Nogueira Belham, ...

The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian ... The focus of “I’m Still Here,” based on the memoir by Paiva’s son Marcelo, is ...

Salles' film beat out several heavy winners to claim the International Feature trophy, including Mohammad Rasoulof's political thriller "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" (a submission ...

Brazil erupted Sunday night when the movie I’m Still Here became the first Oscar winner in the country’s history — in the middle of national Carnival celebrations, no less.