Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Growing up in Brazil around the turn of the millennium, I was too young to have lived ...

Walter Salles’ deeply moving drama “I’m Still Here” has won the Academy Award for best international feature, marking a historic first for Brazil. The film, which tells the real-life story of Eunice ...

Ahead of the 97th Academy Awards next week, the Brazilian hit I'm Still Here witnessed an expansion in domestic theaters. The ...

The Brazilian drama I'm Still Here has won the Academy Award for best international feature, a first for the South American country. The film is based on a true story set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, when ...

When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced “I'm Still Here” as the winner of the international feature at the Academy Awards, millions of Brazilians roared at home and on the streets, where Carnival ...

This award season, culturally dominating films like Wicked and Emilia Pérez—and even critical favorites like Anora and The Brutalist—have emerged as frontrunners in the conversation, but a powerful ...

“I’m Still Here,” Walter Salles’ searing drama about the life of Brazilian lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva, has triumphed at the 97th annual Academy Awards to win Best International Feature Film.

After celebrating its three Oscar nominations for Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” with the same excitement it normally reserves for the soccer World Cup, Brazil went into overdrive when it took home ...

Directed by Walter Salles, the heartbreaking I'm Still Here has been an unquestionable success, thanks almost entirely to the movie's quality. Little was initially known about I'm Still Here outside ...

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The Brazilian film focuses on a real activist whose husband disappeared after a military raid. By Annie Aguiar The Brazilian film “I’m Still Here,” based on the true story of an activist whose ...