The Second Film in the NFS Spring Series
Date/Time: Sunday 6 April 2025, 3:30 pm
Venue: Rainbow Cinemas, Northumberland Mall
Synopsis
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 a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.
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
Cast: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
Running time: 138 minutes
Country/Language: Brazil/Portuguese
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Winner of Oscar for Best International Feature Film