The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian ...

Under a fascist military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva goes from a happy matriarch in Rio de Janeiro to a desperate wife to a begrudgingly defeated woman.

"I'm Still Here" -- which on Sunday won Brazil's first Oscar, in the best international film category -- traces a family's ...

Montenegro was nominated for best lead actress at the Oscars in 1998. Salles, who knew the Paiva family growing up in Rio, says the film was a reconstruction of their memories and of the entire ...

Brazilians are flocking to see its Oscar nominated film I Am Still Here, set during the days of the country's dictatorship. Advocates hope the film might lead to a better understanding of the past.