Brazil has chosen Walter Salles’ well-received comeback function I’m Nonetheless Right here to symbolize it within the Best International Feature Film on the 97th Academy Awards.
The image stars Fernanda Torres because the real-life determine of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva disappeared within the early years of the 1964 to 1985 Brazilian army dictatorship.
It loved a buzzy world premiere in Venice in Competitors, receiving a 10-minute ovation and happening to win Finest Screenplay for Heitor Lorega and Murilo Hauser.
The movie has since made its North American premiere in Toronto and is taking part in in San Sebastian this week, with a number of awards season chatter within the backdrop.
Sony Photos Classics acquired North American rights and a raft of worldwide territories on the movie in Cannes.
In a course of overseen by the Brazilian Cinema Academy, the movie was chosen from a brief checklist of six movies which additionally included Juliana Rojas’ Cicade Campo, Lillah Halla’s Energy Alley, Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino, Haroldo Borges’s Bittersweet Rain and Nara Normande and Tião’s Heartless.
In a course of overseen by the Brazilian Cinema Academy, the movie was chosen from a brief checklist of six movies which additionally included Juliana Rojas’ Cicade Campo, Lillah Halla’s Energy Alley, Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino, Haroldo Borges’s Bittersweet Rain and Nara Normande and Tião’s Heartless.
“I’m proud to chair this committee, which was unanimous in selecting this nice movie about reminiscence, a transferring portrait of a household beneath army dictatorship. I’m Nonetheless Right here is a masterpiece, from the attitude of a girl, Eunice Paiva, and with elegant performances by the 2 Fernandas,” mentioned Bárbara Paz, president of the Choice Committee.
“This can be a historic second for our cinema. I’ve little question that this movie has a fantastic probability of putting Brazil as soon as once more among the many greatest on this planet. We, within the Brazilian audiovisual trade, deserve this.”
