The film is based on a true story set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil was living under a military dictatorship.

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, ...

Brazilian movie "I'm Still Here", set against the backdrop of the military dictatorship and recounting the true story of a ...

The Oscar-winning film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil’s first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film ...

While that award went to Anora, I’m Still Here is based on the true story of Eunice Paiva, an activist protecting her family after the forced disappearance of her former congressman husband Rubens ...

"I'm Still Here" -- which on Sunday won Brazil's first Oscar, in the best international film category -- traces a family's painful history during the country's military dictatorship, forcing a ...

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

But the familial connections don't stop there. In I'm Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, the real-life wife to progressive Brazilian politician Rubens Paiva, who was kidnapped and murdered by ...

In I’m Still Here, one Brazilian clan’s confrontation with the military dictatorship dramatizes the last half-century of Brazil’s democratic travails.

Left behind to pick up the pieces, his wife Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) — the film’s true protagonist — would later become an influential human rights activist. In 1971, engineer and ...