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A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shaken by an act of arbitrary violence during the grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. Chosen by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema to compete for the Best International Film award at the 2025 Oscars.. Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Martha: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Featured on Mais Você: Episode dated December 3, 2024 (2024). The Feast of the Holy Kings Written by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) Played by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the greatest international impact in recent years, winner of the award for best screenplay 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 struggle after her husband’s disappearance. Walter Salles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them accomplices, making them worry about each other’s fate, creating three-dimensional, real and believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, almost like a Greek heroine marked by tragedy, with subtlety, without ever falling into excess or caricature. Detailed set design, concise script, natural performances, carefully chosen soundtrack, precise editing, all contribute to the director being able to convey exactly what he set out to do. Since I knew the story, had read the book on which the film is based, as well as reports about it, my attention was focused on the cinematic solutions used by the director. He manages to transform this story into something universal, capable of communicating with audiences anywhere in the world.