Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles, best known for the Berlinale winner Central Station and the Che Guevara film The Motorcycle Diaries, has again hit the bull's eye with I'm Still Here. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's 2015 book Ainda Estou Aqui, I'm Still Here is a real-life account of the horrors faced by Marcelo's family at the hands of the Brazilian military dictatorship in the early 1970s. It is centered on Marcelo's mother Eunice Paiva who finds life for herself, and her five children, turning upside down when her husband and former Brazilian Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) goes missing.
A film in which the personal becomes the political, I'm Still Here is a cautionary tale on state persecution and violence, which more often than not offers no legal recourse to the affected. It has become the biggest Brazilian hit since COVID-19, despite calls for a boycott by the country's far right.
The Brazilian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, the film had its world premiere at Venice where it won Best Screenplay. It was recently featured in the Gala Screenings at the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, where Salles interacted with the international press. He spoke about adapting Marcelo's book, how the film is breaking all the records at the Brazilian box office, his equation with lead actor Fernanda Torres, the return to the collective experience of watching a film and how the injustices of the military dictatorship of the 1970s that the film deals with have not been addressed in the country to date.
Why didn't anything happen for the people that were killed (by the military dictatorship) at that time?
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