Winner for the Oscar for the Best International Feature Film, "I'm Still Here" tells the true story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres - also nominated for her role). In 1971, Brazil’s military dictatorship abducted her husband Rubens Paiva, along with many others. Brazil's dictatorship killed Paiva, along with many others. Eunice was left to raise their five children. The film is portrait of a woman trying to keep it together, a family trying to keep it together in the face of unimaginable tragedy. Eunice not only managed to raise her family but she went back to school and became a lawyer and human rights defender. The film is personal, filled with details of a large family, playful, loving. It's what makes it all that more devastating when Rubens is ripped away. In our current climate of uncertainty with our US neighbours, where everyone seems on edge of possible human horrors that could be unleashed (there are some cases already happening by ICE forces) - this film seems ever so timely. Catch it in theatres now.
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