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"Your husband will be back home soon." Altitude Films in the UK has revealed another new UK trailer for acclaimed Brazilian film I'm Still Here, made by award-winning filmmaker Walter Salles - his first new film in 12 years. The star of this film, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, just won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The film tells a true story about a Brazilian family whose father is taken by the government & never seen again. Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1971 - a country in the grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by a heinous act. The lives of Eunice Paiva and her five children abruptly change after the disappearance of her husband – the former Brazilian Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva. The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice, Selton Mello, and Fernanda Montenegro. This first premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and it was selected by Brazil as their entry for Best International Film. It will likely end up with a few Oscar nominations this awards season - and will play in select US theaters starting later in January (and in UK theaters in February). Take a look.

Here's the official UK trailer (+ UK poster) for Walter Salles' film I'm Still Here, direct from YouTube:

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You can rewatch the original US trailer for Walter Salles' I'm Still Here right here, for even more footage.

1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history. I'm Still Here, also known as Ainda Estou Aqui in Portuguese, is directed by award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles, his first feature film in 12 years, director of the films A Grande Arte, Foreign Land, Central Station, O Primeiro Dia, Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water, Linha de Passe, and On the Road previously. The screenplay is co-written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega; adapted from Marcelo Rubens Paiva's book. Produced by Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, and Walter Salles. This initially premiered at the 2024 Venice & New York Film Festivals. Sony Classics releases Salles' I'm Still Here in select US theaters starting January 17th, 2025 this month.
At a moment in history where developed democracies around the world seem receptive to political candidates with authoritarian tendencies, the story of Rubens and Eunice Paiva feels increasingly relevant. Rubens was a Brazilian politician who was murdered for his opposition to the implementation of military dictatorship in 1968. After his death, Eunice established herself as one of the nation’s most committed human rights activists.

The story of clinging to principles in unimaginably challenging circumstances comes to life in Walter Salles’ new film “I’m Still Here,” which opens in theaters in January 2025. The biopic aims to put Eunice Paiva in the spotlight and shine new light on a dark chapter in South American history.

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An official synopsis of the film reads, “Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.”

“I’m Still Here” premiered at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival, where many critics gave high marks to Torres for her portrayal of Paiva.

“Fernanda Torres’ performance as Eunice is every bit as spectacular as her filmography would suggest, having marked herself out as one of the South American continent’s greatest actors in roles in ‘Foreign Land’ (also directed by Salles) and won a Palme d’Or for Best Actress in ‘Love Me Forever of Never,'” Leila Latif wrote in her IndieWire review of the film. “Her Eunice possesses phenomenal strength and stoicism which make each moment of pain that peep through the chinks of her armor all the more moving. Its also, thanks to both her and Mello’s formidable talents, a family whose affection feels lived-in and intimate. Even if this stasis of mourning cannot be fully escaped, the reasons they are able to endure are clear from the many small kindnesses that fill so many of their scenes, a reassuring grip on the shoulder, a borrowed shirt, and space made in the bed beside you for those too afraid to sleep.”

“I’m Still Here” is directed by Walter Salles and written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega. In addition to Torres, it stars Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro.

A Sony Pictures Classics release, “I’m Still Here” opens in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, January 17. Watch the trailer below.

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“It’s a miracle,” says Fernanda Torres, the star of Walter Salles‘ I’m Still Here when congratulated on her Golden Globe nomination for the role.

The 59-year-old Brazilian actress seems the odd one out among the boldface names in the best actress, drama category — including Angelina Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Tilda Swinton for The Room Next Door, Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl and Kate Winslet for Lee — but few who have seen the film would challenge her nomination.

In I’m Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a mother of five and wife to former Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva. When Rubens is “disappeared” by the Brazilian regime, during the country’s military dictatorship — which ran from 1964 to 1985 — Paiva reinvents herself as a human rights lawyer and activist, fighting for justice for herself and families like hers.

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Adapted by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Eunice and Rubens’ son Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I’m Still Here is a story of courage and resistance in the face of fascism. It is also the tale of Eunice Paiva’s transformation, from the “1950s housewife” she was raised to be, to returning to law school at 48 to become a fearless activist. She faced intimidation and imprisonment. The film’s most harrowing moments show Eunice’s interrogation by the military, when she is taken from her home, with no contact with the outside world, and spends 12 days in a dark, dank cell, hearing the screams of people being tortured coming through the walls.

But Eunice never lost her spirit. “She was always calm, very intelligent, and very persuasive, and she was always smiling,” says Torres. “She understood the smile as a weapon: To tell the dictatorship they couldn’t break her.”

Torres spoke with The Hollywood Reporter on her personal connection to the Paiva family, the message of Eunice’s story for today, and the family symmetry that saw her nominated for a Golden Globe 26 years after her own mother, Brazilian film legend Fernanda Montenegro (who has a cameo in I’m Still Here as the elderly Eunice), received a Golden Globe nom for Sales’ Central Station in 1999 — the first time a Brazilian actress was nominated.

Walter Salles knew the Paiva family intimately. What was your connection to this story?

My personal connection is Marcelo Rubens Paiva. When he wrote his first book [Happy Old Year] It was a big hit in Brazil. I could have been the young girl in the movie [who asks author Marcelo for an autograph]. I was that age at that time, I lived in Rio. My family and my house were just like his house, with less parties. Marcelo, when he wrote the book, became this idol to all my generation. We were all crazy about Marcelo. We all knew he had lost his father during the dictatorship, but it was just a headline, we didn’t know any details. I first knew of Eunice Paiva as the mother of Marcelo.

When Marcelo wrote I’m Still Here, I ran to the bookstores to read it, because I always wanted to know about what really happened to his father. It was shocking, even more than in the film. What really struck me, though, is how he describes what was also my childhood. My brother, when he saw the movie, said: “My God, that’s our life!” As an adolescent, I was just like the girl in the car filming, having an adolescent life during the dictatorship, afraid of being arrested by policemen. I learned about censorship when I was 5 years old. I had friends whose parents were disappeared.

How did you get into Eunice’s mindset in order to portray her on screen?

The book had a lot of details about her and her background, the way she was raised to be this perfect housewife from the ’50s, and how she became herself. It’s funny, because she became herself, in a way, of this tragedy. Rubens, this very progressive man, didn’t like the idea of his wife working, he wanted the perfect housewife.

Eunice also gave a lot of interviews, and that’s where I grabbed a lot from because she was always calm, very intelligent, and very persuasive, and she was always smiling. The smile was a key thing for the movie. The last thing Rubens did when he was arrested was to smile at her from the door. Later, she would tell her family to smile in the pictures from the press. She understood the smile as a weapon: To tell the dictatorship they couldn’t break her. In her interviews, in the way she speaks, she’s very feminine, she’s very polite but she’s very tough. The very feminine smile was a key thing for me because I think she’s more feminine than I am.

A different generation, I guess. I assume you weren’t raised to be a 1950s housewife?

Yeah, no, no way.

What was the most challenging scene to play in the film?

The prison scene was very complex. During her interrogation, she discovers things her husband was doing that she didn’t know about. The interrogator uses this against her to make her angry with her husband. So much is going on — fear for her daughter, anger, betrayal and a strong desire not to harm her husband.

Another pivotal scene is the moment she learns her husband is dead. We shot multiple takes of that scene, and in one I was sobbing, but the director chose the more restrained take, where she says, “Do you mind if I don’t take you to the door?”

There’s also the ice cream scene, where Eunice realizes her utopia of a perfect family is over. She buries her dream in that moment.

Eunice is such an interesting character because she stays in control, even while devastated. She keeps that constant smile.

I think that connects her to the audience. She doesn’t react openly or show her emotions, but viewers understand what she’s feeling. As a mother, she doesn’t break. She still has five children to raise.

Your own mother, of course, is also in the film, playing Eunice in her later years. Was that your idea?

She was cast before me! Initially, I wasn’t Walter’s first pick, as I’m older than Eunice was when her husband disappeared. But issues arose with the actress he chose, and he eventually cast me. Walter asked me about my personal connections to the family, and I realized how much my mother reminded me of Eunice. There’s a photo of her from when we lived in São Paulo. My father stayed behind as we moved to Rio, and in that picture, you can see her fear and worry. Eunice reminded me of her — she’s a similar kind of woman.

And now you’ve been nominated for a Golden Globe, reminiscent of your mother’s Golden Globe nomination for Central Station back in 1999.

It’s such a beautiful tale, isn’t it? In a way, this film is a family reunion. It’s a family movie, not only in the subject, but also behind the scenes. It’s so beautiful that the movie is being recognized in this way, with very good reviews, and with a Golden Globe nomination like the one that happened to my mother many years ago. It’s a beautiful tale.

Did she give you any advice about how to handle the whole U.S. awards circuit since she went through it so many years ago?

No, she didn’t have to give me any advice because I remember her during that period. I remember my mother being kidnapped by the whole thing. So I knew it was going to be tough, tough work. Back then it was mainly in the United States, but nowadays, the voters of Golden Globes are spread all over the world. Since September it’s been unbelievable the amount of airplane trips that I have been taking.

This is a story from Brazil’s past but what message do you see for the current day, for the current moment, in Eunice and her story?

This film was released in Brazil at a moment when we discovered that [former Brazilian president Jair] Bolsonaro had a plan for a coup d’etat here after the election after Lula [da Silva] was elected. Bolsonaro didn’t want to accept the loss, like what happened in the U.S. And he was surrounded by military people who wanted to do the coup. It’s been discovered they had plans to kill Lula, to kill the vice president, to kill the Supreme Court. A real coup d’etat. Some of the military that were involved in this coup plan were the very same right-wing people who were torturers during the ’70s.

Do you see this film in some ways, a fight for the past? I know that Bolsonaro infamously praised the dictatorship.

When he voted for [former Brazilian President] Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, he dedicated his vote to Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, a well-known torturer. It’s funny, because we thought the film would speak to the progressive part of the society, but it’s become a big mainstream hit in Brazil [earning more than $11 million]. I think it’s because it depicts, not the political fight, but what happens to the family under a dictatorial government, what happens with human rights, with civil rights. It talks about a normal mother, a mother of five. It reaches everyone.

Adolescents and young people, who never lived in a dictatorial government, are discovering the history. They are starting to think: I wouldn’t want to live in a country like that. They are learning what dictatorship means through the movie. Recently, there’s been this movement to say the dictatorship was not so bad because the economy was working, and that maybe democracy is the problem because it’s so confusing. Perhaps if you have a liberal economy with a powerful government, it would solve our problems. Young people are rethinking this, saying: “No, I wouldn’t like to live in a place where this could happen to my father, to my mother, to me.”

What do you think Eunice would have to say to people in the United States who are facing maybe not a dictatorship, but four years of authoritarian uncertainty under Donald Trump?

The dictatorship in Brazil was part of a Cold War moment in the world, a very sick moment where the United States was intervening in countries and sponsoring dictatorships because they wanted to fight communism. Nowadays, we are facing another sick moment. All over the world, you have governments tending toward dictatorship, it’s like a new order. The technology revolution, which we thought would solve our problems has only created more inequality. It’s not only in the States. I think Eunice would tell all of us to endure. The film in a way tells us that we must endure, we must face the challenges with civility, and we must fight for human rights. We must fight for the basic values we fought for after the Second World War. For human rights. This all is happening in part because democracy failed to solve many of our problems, but democracy is still the best way to go, and we must fight for democracy and we must fight for human rights, I think that’s what Eunice would say.

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Are you ready to experience I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)?

Following Fernanda Torres’ historic Golden Globes win for Best Actress in a Drama, Altitude is thrilled to share the new UK and Irish trailer for I’M STILL HERE.

The acclaimed drama, directed by Award-winning director Walter Salles, comes to UK and Irish cinemas from 21 February 2025 with some cinemas already on sale to account for demand. Full details are at Altitude.film

I’M STILL HERE is Brazil’s official entry for International Film at this year’s Academy Awards and has been nominated for two Golden Globes, non-English Language Film and Best Actress (Drama) for Torres, Critics Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival.

PREMISE
In the early 1970s, Rio de Janeiro is under the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Enter the Paiva family: father Rubens, mother Eunice, and their five children, residing in a beachside rented house, always welcoming friends with open doors. Their shared affection and humour serve as subtle acts of defiance against the country’s oppressive regime. However, their lives are irrevocably altered by a sudden, violent event. In its wake, Eunice must reinvent herself and forge a new path for her family. This poignant tale, drawn from Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, has shed light on a significant yet concealed segment of Brazil’s history.

The film has been a remarkable box office success in its native Brazil. Since its cinema release last month, the film has become the biggest Brazilian film of 2024 with over 2.6 million admissions and grossing over $9,000,000 (USD) so far, making it Walter Salles’ biggest movie ever in Brazil and captivating audiences across the country.

CREDITS
Directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro. The film is written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, based on the book by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. The Producers are Maria Carlota Bruno. Rodrigo Teixeira and Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre. The Executive Producers are Giulherme Terra. Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre. Lourenço Sant’anna. Renata Brandão. Juliana Capelini. David Taghioff and Masha Magonova. I’M STILL HERE also features an original score by Warren Ellis.

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Director Walter Salles said,

“When I first read I’m Still Here by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I was deeply moved. For the first time, the story of the desaparecidos, the people snatched from their lives by the Brazilian dictatorship, was being told from the perspective of those left behind. In the experience of one woman – Eunice Paiva, a mother of five – there was both the story of how to live through loss and a mirror of the wound left on a nation. It was also personal: I knew this family and was friends with the Paiva children. Their house remains etched in my memory. During the seven years we spent creating “I’m Still Here,” life in Brazil veered dangerously close to that past – which made it all the more urgent to tell this story.”

Altitude will release I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) in UK & Irish cinemas on February 21st, 2025.
On Tuesday, Sony Pictures Classics released the trailer for “I’m Still Here,” Brazil’s submission for International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

“I’m Still Here” tells the true story of the Paiva family, whose lives were torn apart by the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 1970s, but rebuilt through resilience. In 1971, Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) is disappeared by the military, leaving his wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres as a younger woman, and Fernanda Montenegro when she’s older) alone to care for their five children. But rather than be silenced in fear, Eunice becomes an activist fighting for justice against the oppressive regime, bringing hidden history to light.

The film is directed by Walter Salles, who is making his return to the director’s chair 12 years after his last film, 2012’s “On the Road.” He’s reuniting with his “Central Station” star Montenegro, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the 1998 film and is still the only performer nominated for a Portuguese-language film. “I’m Still Here” is based on a memoir by Eunice and Rubens’ son Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega.

The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September, where it won the screenplay award and was nominated for the Golden Lion. It also received audience awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, the Miami Film Festival, and the São Paulo International Film Festival.

“I’m Still Here” opens in New York and Los Angeles on Jan. 17.
“I’m Still Here” star Fernanda Torres won her first Golden Globe, and cemented her place in the awards race, after scoring the statue for best actress in a motion picture, drama.

Torres, 59, pulled off a major upset in cinching her victory and appeared to be stunned to hear her named called by presenter Viola Davis. She was nominated against Pamela Anderson (“The Last Showgirl”), Angelina Jolie (“Maria”), Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”) and Kate Winslet (“Lee”) and was not expected to prevail against all those A-listers and icons. In the political drama, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a grieving mother of five who is coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, former leftist politician Rubens Paiva, during Brazil’s military dictatorship.

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“My god, I didn’t prepare anything,” Torres admitted from the stage at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. “This is such an amazing year for female performances. There are so many actresses here who I admire so much.”

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She becomes the first Brazilian actress to win the award for best actress in a motion picture, drama. Her victory seemed to be especially meaningful because her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, was previously nominated in the same category in 1999 for “Central Station,” which also earned her an Oscar nod. Montenegro, now 95, appears in “I’m Still Here” as the older version of Eunice.

“She was here 25 years ago, and this is proof that art can endure through life, even in difficult moments like this,” Torres said of her win. She added that “I’m Still Here” is a film “that can helps us to think how to survive in tough times.”

“I’m Still Here” premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the best screenplay award. Since then, it’s been named as one of the top five international films by the National Board of Review and received another Globe nomination for best foreign language film. “I’m Still Here” was also selected as Brazil’s Oscar entry for best international feature film.

Torres didn’t specify on stage what she meant by “tough times.” However, “I’m Still Here’s” filmmakers have said that the movie’s story resonates differently after the Jan. 6 insurrection in the U.S. and the 2023 riots in Brazil where supporters of right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazilian government buildings over his false claims of election fraud.

“We started this project thinking that we were retelling a story from the past, but we came to realize that it was also a reflection on our present,” director Walter Salles told Variety before the film’s theatrical release. “We have to remind ourselves of what happened. Cinema can be a powerful instrument to push against those forces — to help us avoid oblivion. A country without memory is a country without a future.”

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Selected as Brazil’s official entry for Best International Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards, I’m Still Here is a drama from Central Station’s Oscar-nominated director, Walter Salles. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir, Ainda Estou Aqui, the film follows a mother of five whose family’s life is forever changed after the disappearance of her husband, former Brazilian Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva.

I’m Still Here had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay award. The film was also screened at the 62nd New York Film Festival, the 68th BFI London Film Festival, the 38th AFI Fest, the 47th Mill Valley Film Festival, and the 16th Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival as its opening film.

The film stars Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro, Guilherme Silveira, Antonio Saboia, Valentina Herszage, Luiza Kosovski, Marjorie Estiano, Barbara Luz, Garbiela Carneiro da Cunha, Cora Mora, and Olívia Torres.

Release Date
Directed by Walter Salles, I’m Still Here opens in select US theaters on January 17, 2025.

Synopsis
BRAZIL, 1971 – Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.

The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.

Reviews
Jessica Kiang in a Variety review praised the film, writing, “Classical in form but radical in empathy, I’m Still Here arguably does not need the follow-up sections that somewhat alter the emotional rhythm. But on the other hand, these characters are so vivid that we don’t want to leave them either.”

Philip De Semlyen in a Time Out review gave the film a 4/5, praising lead actress Fernanda Torres’ performance, writing, “Having the fate of this well-appointed, upper-middle-class house evoke that of an increasingly oppressed Brazil might seem like a strained metaphor, but Salles’ deeply invested filmmaking is remarkable in its grace and naturalism.”

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The real world story behind I’m Still Here, which chronicles how a Brazilian family had their life upended when the patriarch, a former congressman, goes missing in the 1970s, held such a deep personal meaning for director Walter Salles he felt compelled to depict it on film. But he never expected that the resulting movie might be an agent of change in his home country.

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“When I was 13 years old, I became friends with the five kids of this family,” Salles revealed during a panel conversation at the Deadline Contenders Film event on Saturday alongside lead actress Fernanda Torres, who plays Eunice Paiva, who reinvented herself as an activist following her husband’s disappearance.

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“I was enamored by them, enamored by the vividness of the heart of this family, enamored by the affection of the heart of this family, enamored of the joy that pulsated in that house – a joy that was really the reverse angle of the military dictatorship that ruled the country at that time,” Salles continued. “And for two years I was informed by that family. And one day something tragic happened and that family was robbed of the joy that you sense in the first act of the film. Thus started the long journey to tell this story 40 years later.”

“I cannot refrain from telling it: it was an urgency to tell it,” said Salles. “But at the very start of this, I thought we were offering a reflection of our past, because Brazilian cinema didn’t look too much at the 70s. And I thought that there was the need to do that, but thinking at the beginning that it would reverberate the past. And then suddenly the whole political situation in Brazil and in the world changed. And we realized that we were doing the film about the present as well. And that realization did hit all of us in front of the camera, but behind the camera as well.”

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Much to Salles’ surprise and delight, he’s seen the film spark an unexpected conversation in Brazil since its premiere there. “The cinemas started to be completely filled, and we became the number one film in Brazil last weekend – we’re a little bit flabbergasted by that, we confess, because there was a Marvel film in number two!” he laughed.

“But much more important than the box office is the fact that people are going to the cinemas again to have a collective experience,” he continued. “People are staying in the film until the very end of the credits and they’re writing in social media what the experience was in the screening room that they were at.”

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“It is becoming a kind of cultural, sociological political phenomenon,” he said. “We couldn’t anticipate that. And it made me think now that literature, cinema, music, can be incredible instruments against oblivion.”

Check out the panel video above.

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Portuguese Ainda Estou Aqui
Directed by Walter Salles
Screenplay by
Murilo Hauser
Heitor Lorega
Based on I'm Still Here
by Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Produced by
Maria Carlota Bruno
Rodrigo Teixeira
Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Starring
Fernanda Torres
Selton Mello
Fernanda Montenegro
Cinematography Adrian Teijido
Edited by Affonso Gonçalves
Music by Warren Ellis
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Mact Productions
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StudioCanal (France)
Release dates
1 September 2024 (Venice)
7 November 2024 (Brazil)
15 January 2025 (France)
Running time 135 minutes
Countries
Brazil
France
Language Portuguese
Budget R$8 million (US$1.48 million)[1]
Box office US$11.3 million[2]
I'm Still Here (Portuguese: Ainda Estou Aqui) is a 2024 political biographical drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's 2015 memoir of the same name. It stars Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, during the military dictatorship in Brazil.[3] Soon after its release in Brazilian theaters on 7 November 2024 by Sony Pictures Releasing International, the film was the target of an unsuccessful boycott by the Brazilian far-right.[4][5][6] Grossing $11.3 million on a $1.5 million production budget, it became the highest-grossing Brazilian film since the COVID-19 pandemic.[7][8][9]

The film had its world premiere on 1 September 2024 at the 81st Venice International Film Festival,[10] where it received critical acclaim, with unanimous praise towards Torres' performance,[11] winning the Best Screenplay award.[12] It was named one of the Top 5 International Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.[13] At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Torres won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama category, while the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also selected as the Brazilian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist.[14]

Plot
In 1970, former congressman Rubens Paiva returns to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after six years of self-exile following the revocation of his tenure at the outset of the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. Living in an idyllic house near Leblon beach with his wife Eunice and their five children, Paiva returns to his civil career while continuing to support expatriates without discussing his activities with his family.

Following the kidnapping of the Swiss ambassador by far-left revolutionary movements, Brazil faces a looming political instability. A military raid takes place in Paiva's house, resulting in his arrest and disappearance in January 1971. Eunice's public inquiries on Rubens' whereabouts results in her arrest and torture for 12 days. Eliana, their teenage daughter, is also imprisoned but is released after 24 hours. After moderate media outrage ignited by family and friends, Eunice is unofficially informed of Rubens' fate.

25 years later, in 1996, Eunice receives from the Brazilian state — now once again a democracy — Rubens Paiva's official death certificate. In 2014, during a family gathering surrounded by her children and grandchildren, the now 85-year-old Eunice lives with advanced Alzheimer's disease. When a news report about the National Truth Commission addresses Rubens' case, a distressed Eunice appears to remember her past.

Cast
Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva[15]
Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva (older)
Selton Mello as Rubens Paiva
Guilherme Silveira as Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Antonio Saboia as Marcelo Rubens Paiva (adult)
Valentina Herszage as Vera Paiva
Maria Manoella como Vera Paiva (adult)
Luiza Kosovski as Eliana Paiva
Marjorie Estiano as Eliana Paiva (adult)
Barbara Luz as Nalu Paiva
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha as Nalu Paiva (adult)
Cora Mora as Maria Beatriz Facciolla Paiva
Olívia Torres as Maria Beatriz Facciolla Paiva (adult)
Pri Helena as Maria José (Zezé)
Humberto Carrão as Félix
Maeve Jinkings as Dalva Gasparian
Caio Horowicz as Ricardo Gomes Pimpão
Camila Márdila as Dalal Achcar
Charles Fricks as Fernando Gasparian
Luana Nastas as Helena Gasparian
Isadora Ruppert as Laura Gasparian
Daniel Dantas as Raul Ryff
Maitê Padilha as Cristina
Carla Ribas as Martha
Dan Stulbach as Bocaiuva Cunha
Production
The screenplay was written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, and adapted from the memoir Ainda Estou Aqui by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Eunice's son. Hauser also co-wrote the screenplay for Karim Aïnouz's The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019), based on the novel of the same name by Martha Batalha.

Principal photography began in June 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[16] The film was produced by RT Features and VideoFilmes in co-production with Globoplay, Mact Productions, Conspiração Filmes and Arte France Cinéma.

Release

Director Walter Salles and lead actress Fernanda Torres promoting I'm Still Here at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival
In May 2024, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to I'm Still Here in North America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand at the Marché du Film.[3]

The film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 1 September 2024, receiving a standing ovation of over 10 minutes;[17] it was nominated for the Golden Lion[10] and won the Best Screenplay prize.[18] It was also screened at the Toronto, New York and London film festivals in September and October.[19][20] It was featured in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam to be screened in February 2025.[21]

To qualify for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, the film was given a limited theatrical run in the Brazilian city of Salvador from 19 to 25 September 2024,[22] followed by a nationwide release on 7 November by Sony Pictures Releasing.[23]

I'm Still Here is set to be released in France on 15 January 2025 by StudioCanal.[24] In the United States, the film received a one-week awards-qualifying run in November 2024 and is set to open in New York City and Los Angeles on 17 January 2025, before expanding to a wide release on 14 February.[25]

Reception
Box office
On its opening day in Brazil, I'm Still Here brought 50,320 people to the cinemas, grossing R$1.1 million.[26] In its first weekend, even though it was the target of a frustrated boycott by the Brazilian far-right,[27] the film debuted in first place at the box office with 358,000 admissions, earning R$8.6 million, surpassing Venom: The Last Dance third week (R$6.6 million) and Red One first weekend (R$5.3 million).[28]

By January 2025, the film had surpassed 3 million admissions, and became the highest-grossing Brazilian film since the COVID-19 pandemic, grossing US11.3 million.[7][8]

Critical response

Fernanda Torres in the film's world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Many critics considered her performance one of the best of the year.[29] She became the first Brazilian actress to win the Golden Globe for acting.[30]
I'm Still Here received overwhelming praise upon release by the public, film critics and the Brazilian and international press; praise was mainly directed to Fernanda Torres' performance.[31]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 32 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10.[32] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[33] Jessica Kiang of Variety praised the film and its dramatic charge: "Classical in form but radical in empathy, I'm Still Here arguably does not need the follow-up sections—one set in 1996 and the other in 2014—that somewhat alter the emotional rhythm. But on the other hand, these characters are so vivid that we don't want to leave them either".[34] For Wendy Ide of Screen Daily, Salles "never over-labours the film's emotional beats, relying instead on Torres' magnificent, intricately layered performance to drive the picture"; she also praised Montenegro, "who has a brief but exceptionally powerful cameo here as the elderly Eunice".[35]

Several international outlets applauded Fernanda Torres' work, with Collider considering it one of the best performances of the year, being "more than deserving of an Oscar nomination".[29] In her review for Deadline, Stephanie Bunbury describes the film as a "celebration of Brazil", and praises Torres, stating that the actress "has an emotional delicacy as Eunice that conveys, through the smallest and subtlest signals, what it costs her to hold back her anxiety and anger for the sake of her family. It is a performance that should catapult her into the awards race, 25 years after her mother Fernanda Montenegro was Oscar-nominated for Salles' breakthrough feature, Central Station".[36] David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter highlighted the relationship between Montenegro and Torres, saying "What makes the connection even more poignant is that she appears as the elderly, infirm version of the protagonist", and recognized I'm Still Here as "a gripping, profoundly touching film with a deep well of pathos. It's one of Salles' best".[37] For IndieWire, Leila Latif says Torres' performance "is as spectacular as her filmography would suggest, having marked herself out as one of the South American continent's greatest actors in roles in Foreign Land (also directed by Salles) and won a Palme d'Or for Best Actress in Love Me Forever or Never. Her Eunice possesses phenomenal strength and stoicism which make each moment of pain that peep through the chinks of her armor all the more moving", and praised her on-screen interaction with Selton Mello.[38]

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón named it one of his favorite films of 2024, saying "Watching a Walter Salles film is to be embraced in generosity, is like experiencing a gravitational pull, both lifting and grounding us at the same time with an invisible yet undeniable force. With I'm Still Here, this effect is even more compelling.[39]

It was named one of the Top 5 International Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review,[40] and one of 50 Best Films of the year by British film magazine Sight & Sound.[41]

Accolades
Award Ceremony date Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Venice International Film Festival 7 September 2024 Golden Lion Walter Salles Nominated [42]
Best Screenplay Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega Won
Green Drop Award Walter Salles Won [43]
SIGNIS Award Won [44]
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television 22 October 2024 Actress Award – International Film Fernanda Torres Honored [45]
Vancouver International Film Festival 11 October 2024 Gala & Special Presentations Audience Award I'm Still Here Won [46]
Mill Valley Film Festival 16 October 2024 Audience Favorite World Cinema Won [47]
Pingyao International Film Festival 18 October 2024 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon East-West Award Walter Salles Honored [48]
São Paulo International Film Festival 30 October 2024 Audience Award – Best Brazilian Fiction I'm Still Here Won [49]
Miami Film Festival 7 November 2024 Audience Award Won [50]
Festival international du film d'histoire de Pessac [fr] 25 November 2024 Prix Danielle Le Roy du Jury Étudiant Won [51]
Prix du Public Won
Premio Arcanjo de Cultura 2 December 2024 Cinema Won [52]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 8 December 2024 Best Lead Performance Fernanda Torres Runner-up [53]
Astra Film Awards 8 December 2024 Best International Feature I'm Still Here Nominated [54]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 8 December 2024 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [55]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle 15 December 2024 Best International Feature Film Nominated [56]
New Mexico Film Critics 15 December 2024 Best Foreign Language Film Won [57]
Best Adapted Screenplay Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega Runner-up
New York Film Critics Online 16 December 2024 Best International Feature I'm Still Here Runner-up [58]
Premio F5 19 December 2024 Best Film Won [59]
Performance of the Year - Film Fernanda Torres Won
Performance of the Year - Children's Role Cora Mora Won
Florida Film Critics Circle 20 December 2024 Best International Film I'm Still Here Nominated [60]
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association 4 January 2025 Best Actress Fernanda Torres Nominated [61]
DiscussingFilm Global Critic Award Best Actress Nominated [62]
Best International Feature I'm Still Here Nominated
Associação de Criticos de Cinema do Rio de Janeiro Film of the Year Won [63]
Golden Globe Awards 5 January 2025 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [64]
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Fernanda Torres Won
Austin Film Critics Association 6 January 2025 Best International Film I'm Still Here Nominated [65]
National Board of Review 7 January 2025 Top 5 International Films Won [66]
Critics' Choice Awards 12 January 2025 Best Foreign Language Film Pending [67]
North Dakota Film Society 13 January 2025 Best International Feature Pending [68]
Best Actress Fernanda Torres Pending
Satellite Awards 26 January 2025 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Pending [69]
Best Motion Picture – International I'm Still Here Pending
See also
List of submissions to the 97th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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Fernanda Torres

Torres during the 81st Venice International Film Festival
Born 15 September 1965 (age 59)[1]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Spouse
Andrucha Waddington ​(m. 1997)​
Children 2
Parents
Fernando Torres (father)
Fernanda Montenegro (mother)
Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres[1] (born 15 September 1965) is a Brazilian actress and writer. From Portuguese and Italian descent,[2][3] she was born in Rio de Janeiro and is the daughter of the actors Fernanda Montenegro and Fernando Torres.[4]

Throughout her acting career, Torres has received numerous awards, including Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Love Me Forever or Never.[5] For her critically acclaimed performance in the drama film I'm Still Here (2024), Torres became the first Brazilian and Latin actress to win the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards[6][7]and the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress – International Film.[8] For the same film, she has also been nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

As a writer, her debut novel, The End, sold over 200,000 copies in Brazil and was translated into 7 other languages.[9][10]

Acting
Debuting as an actress at thirteen, Torres' career spans more than four decades in theater, television, literature and cinema.[11]

At the age of 16, Torres had her film debut in Inocência, by Walter Lima Junior.[12] Alongside Walter Salles, Torres was met with critical acclaim for her roles in Foreign Land (1994), Midnight (1998) and I'm Still Here (2024).[13] Torres received numerous awards in her career, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress prize in 1986 for the drama film Love Me Forever or Never by Arnaldo Jabor.[14][15] In 2003, she wrote her first script for O Redentor (2004), with her brother Cláudio Torres.

In her long theatrical career, the monologue A Casa dos Budas Ditosos, based on the novel of the same name by João Ubaldo Ribeiro,[16] debuted in 2003 reaching more than one million spectators.

On television, she acted in numerous popular comedy series, such as Os Normais and Tapas e Beijos, produced by TV Globo.[17] As a presenter, she developed the project Minha Estupidez and Bicho Homem for television, and the podcast The Playlist Of My Life, as an interviewer and scriptwriter, on the Deezer platform.[18]

Torres was the second Brazilian to ever be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, the first one being her mother Fernanda Montenegro 26 years before her. She became the first Brazilian to ever win that award.[19]

Writing
In 2007, she began writing for newspapers and magazines as a columnist, publishing a weekly column in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo since 2010.

In 2014, Torres released her first novel, Fim (The End), which sold more than 200,000 copies in Brazil and was translated into seven languages. She published her second novel, A Glória e Seu Cortejo de Horrores (Glory and Its Litany of Horrors), in 2017.

Her first novel, The End was adapted into a 10-chapter minisseries for Brazilian streaming service Globoplay in 2023.[20][21]

Personal life
She is married to movie producer and director Andrucha Waddington, who directed her and her mother in the 2005 film The House of Sand. They have two sons together, Joaquim (b. 2000) and Antônio (born on April 10, 2008). She is also the stepmother of João (b. 1993) and Pedro (b. 1995).

Filmography
Film
Year Title
1983 Inocência [pt]
1984 Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática
1985 A Marvada Carne
Madame Cartô
Sonho sem Fim
1986 Love Me Forever or Never (Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar)
Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta
1988 A Mulher do Próximo
Fogo e Paixão
1989 Kuarup
1990 Beijo 2348/72
1991 A Guerra de um Homem
1993 Capitalismo Selvagem
1996 The Jew (O Judeu)
Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira)
1997 Miramar
Four Days in September (O Que É Isso, Companheiro?)
1998 Midnight (O Primeiro Dia)
Traição
1999 Gêmeas
2003 So Normal (Os Normais)
2004 Redeemer (Redentor)
2005 The House of Sand (Casa de Areia)[22]
2007 Saneamento Básico
Playing (Jogo de Cena)
2009 The Invisible Woman (A Mulher Invisível)
Os Normais 2: A Noite Mais Maluca de Todas
2017 Os 8 Magníficos
2018 O Juízo
2019 Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvelous Entanglement
2024 I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
Television
Year Title Role Nota
1979 Aplauso Soraia
1981 Baila Comigo Fauna Rosa França Telenovela
Brilhante Marília Newman Carvalho
1983 Parabéns pra Você Irene
Caso Especial Clara Episode: "O Fantasma de Canterville"
Maria Alice Episode: "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo"
Eu Prometo Dayse Ribeiro Cantomaia Telenovela
1986 Selva de Pedra Simone Marques / Rosana Reis
1994 Terça Nobre Diana Episode: "Comédia da Vida Privada"
Dorinha Episode: "O Homem que Sabia Javanês"
Lúcia McCartney Episode: "Lúcia McCartney"
1995–97 A Comédia da Vida Privada
1999 Luna Caliente Dora
2001 As Filhas da Mãe Lulu de Luxemburgo Telenovela
2001–03 Os Normais Vanilce Alencar (Vani)
2002 Brava Gente Jaci Episode: "Lira Paulistana"
2004 Um Só Coração Fernanda Montenegro Episode: "8 de abril"
Sitcom.br Nana Episode: "Dia das Mães"
2006 Os Amadores Alice Episode: "22 de dezembro"
2008 Sexo Oposto
2009 Bicho Homem
2010 Programa Piloto Renata
As Cariocas Cris[23] Episode: "A Invejosa de Ipanema"
Amoral da História [24]
2011–15 Tapas & Beijos Fátima de Souza
2016 Mister Brau Bárbara[25] Episode: "19 de julho"
2016–17 Minha Estupidez
2017–19 Filhos da Pátria Maria Teresa Bulhosa
2018 Sob Pressão Drª. Renata Gomes Second Season
2019 Mulheres Fantásticas Narradora[26] Episódio: "Hedy Lamarr"
2020 Todas as Mulheres do Mundo Estela[27]
Diário de Um Confinado Leonor[28]
Amor e Sorte Lúcia Bóis[29]
Gilda, Lúcia e o Bode Especial de fim de ano
2023 Fim Celeste
Books
2013 – Fim (The End)[30]
2017 – A Glória e seu Cortejo de Horrores[31]
Awards and nominations

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Year Association Category Nominated work Result Ref
1985 Gramado Film Festival Best Actress A Marvada Carne Won
1986 Nantes Three Continents Festival Best Actress Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta Won
1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Love Me Forever or Never Won
1987 11th International Film Festival of India IFFI Best Actor Award (Female) Love Me Forever or Never Won
1999 Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema Best Actress Gêmeas Won
2000 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize Best Actress Traição Nominated
2000 São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards Best Actress O Primeiro Dia Won
2001 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize Best Actress Gêmeas Nominated
2004 ACIE Awards Best Actress So Normal Nominated
2006 Guadalajara International Film Festival Best Actress The House of Sand Won
2024 Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television Best Actress – International Film I'm Still Here Won [32]
2024 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Lead Performance Runner-up [33]
2025 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Won [34]
2025 Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Pending
References
Fernanda Torres, Memória Globo - Rede Globo Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
"IstoÉ Gente: Fernanda Montenegro". Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
Fernanda Montenegro – Site Oficial – Universo Online
"Fronteiras do Pensamento". Fronteiras do Pensamento (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-09-17.
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