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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence as the grip of Brazil’s military dictatorship tightens.. Selected by the Brazilian Film Academy to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars.. Eunice Paiva: Martha, you gotta help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Featured on Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Performed by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international impact in recent years, I’m Still Here, which won the Best Screenplay award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar, dramatizes the journey of the Paiva family between the arrest of Rubens Paiva and the struggle of the father and Eunice after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them partners, caring about the fate of each of them, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres, a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, plays the role of her life with delicacy, never falling into excess or caricature. The detailed script, the thin script, the natural interpretations, the hand-picked soundtrack, the precise editing, everything contributes to the director being able to convey exactly what he has to do. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film was based, and in addition to the reports about it, my attention was drawn to the cinematic solutions used by the director. He manages to make this particular story universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world.