The movie focuses on the personal and political story of its protagonist, lawyer Eunice Paiva (1929–2018) whose husband, former Congressman Rubens Paiva, was kidnapped and killed by agents of ...

It’s anchored by a remarkable performance in the central role of Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens and mother of the family, who’s left to pick up the pieces following her husband’s arrest.

When the celebrated Brazilian author Marcelo Paiva started writing his 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), he wanted to record his family history as his mother, Eunice Paiva ...

Clockwise from top left: <em>I'm Still Here, One of Them Days, Presence, Sinners, Warfare, Black Bag</em> Credit - Sony ...

The story of Eunice Paiva’s tenacity is inspiring, but Torres really sells it with tragic emotional impact. There are many moments where her silence says so much, like the life is slowly leaving ...

The latest feature from Walter Salles (“Central Station,” “The Motorcycle Diaries”) tells the remarkable story of Eunice Paiva. Known as a human rights activist in Brazil, Paiva became a ...

Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for an Oscar for her leading role as Eunice Paiva. Her husband, Rubens Paiva, had been a congressman before the U.S.-backed coup d'etat in 1964.

Paiva became a symbol of the struggle against the oppression of the Brazilian dictatorship and a defender of human rights.

In Walter Salles’ Oscar-shortlisted film I’m Still Here, set in 1970 at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship, Fernanda Torres plays an extraordinary mother: Eunice Paiva, who was ...

Fernanda Torres gives a complex, Oscar-nominated performance as Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva, whose search for her ‘disappeared’ congressman-husband made headlines Based on a true story ...

That woman is Eunice Paiva, and in January 1971, her life was turned on its head when military police raided her family’s Rio ...

The critically acclaimed film ‘I’m Still Here’ focuses on the personal and political history of Eunice Paiva but offers glimpses of her Indigenous rights work as a lawyer — a rarity in ...