I’M STILL HERE Special Screenings

I’M STILL HERE

Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Walter Salles and actors Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello.

Based on true events and the bestselling memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about his family, I’M STILL HERE – directed by Walter Salles – explores early 1970s Brazil, where the military dictatorship is tightening its grip on civil society. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a middle-class mother of five, must reinvent her life after her activist husband Rubens (Selton Mello) disappears. Taken in for questioning by the secret police, Eunice endures interrogation and cruel mistreatment for more than a week before being released. She then begins the hard work of both protecting her family, and seeking justice for her husband and others persecuted by the Brazilian junta. Torres impresses as Eunice, who eventually became a lawyer and activist, and Salles sensitively portrays the contours of the family members’ experiences of personal and material loss in this deeply moving film which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice Film Festival and marks director Walter Salles’ first feature in more than a decade. –Todd Hitchcock

Walter Salles is a Brazilian filmmaker, most well-known for his Berlinale Golden Bear-winning film CENTRAL STATION (1998), which received two Academy Awards® nominations and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable works include BEHIND THE SUN (2001) and DARK WATER (2005).

Details

Country: Brazil, France

Year: 2024

Director: Walter Salles

Screenwriters: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega

Producers: Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre

Executive Producers: Giulherme Terra, Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre Lourenço Sant’anna, Renata Brandão, Juliana Capelini, David Taghioff, Masha Magonova

Director of Photography: Adrian Teijido

Editor: Affonso Gonçalves

Production Designer: Carlos Conti

Costume Designer: Cláudia Kopke

Music: Warren Ellis

Cast/Featuring: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro

Running Time (minutes): 135

Language: Portuguese

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