Based on the real-life 1971 disappearance of Brazilian Congressman Rubens Paiva, the movie, directed by Walter Salles, is a profile of one family's resolve.
During a post-screening Q&A, "I'm Still Here" director Walter Salles and star Fernanda Torres talk about the relevance of their film to the past and future of Brazil.
Walter Salles 'I'm Still Here' opens in limited release at the indie film box office after a heady run since star Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress.
Both Torres and Salles are in the mix for Oscar nominations for best actress and best international film this year.
In Walter Salles' Oscar-shortlisted film I'm Still Here, set in 1970 at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship, Fernanda Torres plays an extraordinary mother: Eunice Paiva, who was left to raise five children alone after the disappearance of her activist husband Rubens (played by Selton Mello).
Playing the wife of a disappeared political prisoner, Torres exhibits the ways mothers must carry on after tragedy
Political resistance in movies often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile.
The great Brazilian actress and writer Fernanda Torres recently won a surprise Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic Role, for Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here. Because the film is a fairly limited release and Torres had not been pegged by many as a major Oscar season contender,
Actress Fernanda Torres knew her friend, the director Walter Salles, intended to make a film based on a real-life Rio de Janeiro woman who fought for justice for her family after Brazil’s ...
Sharon Waxman, Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles (Todd Williamson) “I became very good friends with the middle sister of the five kids, and I was enamored by the family,” he said during a ...
Brazil’s dark history as a military dictatorship with horrible human rights violations is exposed in the award-winning “I’m Still Here.”
It’s impossible not to be moved to tears by "I’m Still Here," an emotional powerhouse which finds its bruised heart in the understated, overwhelming performance by Torres, which represents acting at its finest, the kind of portrayal that awards were created to reward.