Walter Salles' 'I'm Still Here' Explores Family Trauma Under Brazilian Dictatorship

The film, based on Marcelo Paiva's memoir, portrays the Paiva family's resilience amid state-sanctioned brutality.

Fernanda Torres delivers a powerful performance as Eunice Paiva, the family's matriarch.
The movie captures the gradual intrusion of political violence into the Paiva family's idyllic life.
Salles uses vintage aesthetics and music to evoke a sense of nostalgia and melancholy.
The film highlights the family's struggle for acknowledgment of Rubens Paiva's disappearance.
'I'm Still Here' premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and is seeking U.S. distribution.