A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by random violence during the brutal 1971 Brazilian military dictatorship. Selected by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema to compete for Best International Film at the 2025 Oscars. Eunice Paiva: Martha, you have to help me. My husband is in danger! Marta: Everyone is in danger, Eunice.. Featured in Mais Você: 3 Dec 2024 episode. (2024). A Festa do Santo Reis by Léo Maia (as Marcio Leonardo) performed by Tim Maia. The Brazilian film with the most international impact 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 Ruben Paiva, the father, and Eunice's struggle after her husband's disappearance. Walter Sayles immerses the viewer in the intimacy of this family and makes them complicit, making them care about the fate of each, creating three-dimensional, real, believable characters. Fernanda Torres plays the role of her life, an almost Greek heroine characterized by tragedy, with subtlety, never falling into excess or caricature. Detailed scenography, clean script, natural interpretations, hand-picked soundtrack, precise editing, everything contributes to the director conveying exactly what he intended. Since I knew the story, I had read the book on which the film was based, in addition to the reports about it, the cinematographic decisions used by the director attracted my attention. He manages to turn this particular story into something universal that can connect with audiences anywhere in the world.