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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of the military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. The Brazilian Film Academy has selected it to compete for Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards. 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 Reis Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Performed by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international resonance 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, her father, and Eunice’s struggle after the disappearance of her husband. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them complicit, forcing them to care about the fate of each one individually, creating three-dimensional, real, convincing characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, without falling into excess or caricature. The detailed set design, the lean script, natural interpretations, the carefully chosen soundtrack, the precise editing, all contribute to the director being able to convey exactly what he intended. Since I knew the story, I also read the book on which the film was based, in addition to the report about it, my attention was drawn to the cinematographic solutions used by the director. He manages to turn this particular story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world.