Fernanda Torres gives an outstanding performance as a woman whose husband disappears under Brazil’s repressive dictatorship ...

When Big Issue spoke to Walter Salles, celebrated Brazilian director of Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries and now I’m Still Here, his lead actress Fernanda ... is “disappeared” by military ...

Directed by The Motorcycle Diaries and Central Station's Walter ... After all, the story told by I'm Still Here is not only real but also a glimpse into the cruelty of the Brazilian military ...

Just like Britain’s ‘stiff upper lip’, that indominable spirit in the face of adversity, Brazil has a dominant personality ...

Rubens is one of more than 450 people killed or disappeared during Brazil’s two-decade dictatorship. For Walter Salles, whose Oscar-nominated new film, I’m Still Here, is about the family ...

The powerful new movie from Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road and more) is based on the real-life story of what happened to politician Rubens Paiva in 1971 while Brazil was under a ...

Few films have shown this with more delicate intelligence than I'm Still Here, a moving new drama set during Brazil's military ... and learns to fight for other people's rights as well.

History comes to the living room,” said the author Philip Roth, summing up the ideal of all historical fiction, which is to show how big events impact daily lives and real people. Roth was ...

WE KNOW more than we’d like to about people being ‘disappeared’ in this part of the world, but Walter Salles‘s new reality-based drama I’m Still Here reminds us that families elsewhere ...

Avoiding the conventional format for biopics about revered public figures, I’m Still Here explores a specific ... of a left-wing dissident during Brazil’s military dictatorship.

I’m Still Here has become the most successful film made in Brazil since the pandemic, and has garnered three Oscar ...