I'm Still Here (Film Club)
10 Jun 2025
Various times
137 minutes
Winner of the Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Oscars.
One afternoon in 1971, Rubens Paiva, a former congressman and outspoken critic of Brazil's newly instituted military dictatorship, was taken from his home in Rio de Janeiro by government officials, told nothing more than that he must give a "deposition" to authorities, and disappeared.
Adapted from his son Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, this overwhelming, richly realized political drama from Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) stays tightly wedded to the perspective of Rubens's wife, Eunice (a shattering Fernanda Torres), whose indefatigable search for the truth about her husband would stretch out for decades.
A devastating true story, I'm Still Here is exhilarating in its portrayal of human tenacity in the face of injustice.
Director: Walter Salles
Writers: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Cast: Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Selton Mello
2024
Brazil
PG
137 mins
Cookies are Disabled
To be able to view this content you will need to enable the following cookies:
English 
Welsh 
