I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here is set in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, where Eunice Paiva lives with her husband Rubens, a former congressman, and their five children. When Rubens is taken by the military regime and never returns, Eunice is left to protect her family, endure her own detention, and spend years seeking acknowledgment of what happened to him. The film follows her across decades of quiet, determined endurance.

It is a portrait of mourning without a body, of grief held open by the state's refusal to confirm a death, and of memory kept alive as an act of resistance. It shows how a family absorbs an absence that is never explained and how one woman carries it with composure and resolve. It won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2025, and is based on the memoir Ainda Estou Aqui by Marcelo Rubens Paiva.