4th September 2025
Directed by: Walter Salles
Staring: Fernanda Torres & Selton Mello
Brazil 2024
A true-life story depicting the abduction of a congressman in military-occupied Brazil in 1970. His wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and their children live in Rio de Janeiro in an idyllic locale by the beach. The film focuses on how she and their children function without him and offers an emotional journey of resilience and hope. In the final sequence Torres’ mother Fernanda Montenegro appears as the elderly Eunice. Fernanda Montenegro was the first Brazilian actress nominated for an Oscar, and her daughter Fernanda Torres is only the second Brazilian actress to be nominated for an Oscar, for I’m Still Here.