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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an arbitrary act of violence during the tightening of a military dictatorship in Brazil in 1971. Selected by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema to compete for Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Oscars… Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice. Featured in Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). A Festa do Santo ReisWritten by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo)Performed by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film that has had the greatest international impact in recent years, winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar, I’m Still Here dramatizes the trajectory of the Paiva family between the arrest of Rubens Paiva, the father, and Eunice’s fight after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them an accomplice, making them care about the fate of each one, creating three-dimensional, real and credible characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, without ever falling into excess or caricature. Detailed scenography, refined script, natural performances, carefully chosen soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to allowing the director to convey exactly what he set out to do. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film is based, in addition to the reports on the subject, my attention was drawn to the cinematographic solutions used by the director. He manages to transform this particular story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences all over the world.