“I’m Still Here” is nominated for a Golden Globe
Directed by Walter Salles, the feature film I’m Still Here (Ainda estou Aqui) has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for foreign-language film. Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for best actress, alongside Tilda Swinton, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, and Nicole Kidman.
The movie chronicles the life of the Paiva family—the mother, Eunice, and her five children—after the disappearance of Eunice’s husband, congressman Rubens Paiva, who was arrested, tortured, and killed by agents of the military dictatorship (1968–1988).
The feature was also chosen by the Brazilian Film Academy to be the Brazilian representative in the running for an Oscar nomination in 2025. It has been received with great emotion by audiences and has won awards at various international festivals, including the prize for best screenplay at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is based on the biographical book by journalist Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the youngest son of Eunice and Rubens Paiva. Released in 2015, the book tells the story of his mother, a symbol of the fight against the dictatorship. She lived until 2018 and died of Alzheimer’s at the age of 86.
Eunice Paiva raised her five children and became a human rights and indigenous rights lawyer after her husband’s arrest and disappearance in 1971 during the dictatorship in Rio de Janeiro.
