Director: Walter Salles
Walter Salles's 2024 drama I'm Still Here follows a Brazilian family whose ordinary life is upended when the country's military dictatorship reaches into their own living room.
What is I'm Still Here about?
Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s: Eunice lives a full, noisy household with her husband, a former congressman, and their five children, filling their beachside home with friends, music, and everyday warmth. That routine breaks apart when her husband is taken from their house for questioning by state agents and never returns, leaving Eunice to raise her children alone while searching for answers the authorities refuse to give. Rather than collapse under grief, she rebuilds her life around persistence, quietly documenting the family's story and pressing for the truth for years afterward. The film moves between the vivid warmth of the family's earlier years and the long, patient resistance that follows, showing how one household absorbed a national trauma without losing its sense of itself.
Cast & crew
Fernanda Torres anchors the film as Eunice, with Selton Mello as her husband and Valentina Herszage, Bárbara Luz, Guilherme Silveira, and Luiza Kosovski as the couple's children navigating a house that changes overnight.
Context & significance
Director Walter Salles, known internationally for Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, based the film on the memoir written by one of the real family's own sons, drawing on decades of documented history from Brazil's period of military rule to shape the story's timeline.
Where & how to watch
I'm Still Here is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the family's story without a language barrier. Anyone can read the film's page for free; watching requires only logging into a K-Time account, on a service built with a fully Farsi interface for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.