I’m Still Here (15)

23rd May 2025 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)

Kirkgate Centre

I'm Still Here won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama.

One afternoon in 1971, Rubens Paiva, a former congressman and outspoken critic of Brazil's newly instituted military dictatorship, was taken from his home in Rio de Janeiro by government officials, told nothing more than that he must give a "deposition" to authorities, and disappeared. Adapted from his son Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, this overwhelming, richly realized political drama from Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) stays tightly wedded to the perspective of Rubens's wife, Eunice (a shattering Fernanda Torres), whose indefatigable search for the truth about her husband would stretch out for decades. A devastating true story, I'm Still Here is exhilarating in its portrayal of human tenacity in the face of injustice. Featuring a deeply affecting appearance from Fernanda Montenegro, Oscar nominee for Salles's Central Station. A Sony Pictures Classics release

Powerful and gripping. Mark Kermode

Starring: Fernanda Torres; Fernanda Montenegro; Selton Mello

Director: Walter Salles

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Time: 137 minutes