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The best films of 2025, from One Battle After Another to Sinners, Marty Supreme and more

Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti and Timothée Chalamet all stole the limelight, but we also trembled with surprise at Alexander Skarsgård’s BDSM biker in Pillion

Evening Standard

Brazil announces compensation for dictatorship victim Vladimir Herzog

The Brazilian government has acknowledged its role in the killing and cover-up of a prominent journalist in the 1970s.

Al Jazeera

Two Oscar-winning films shed light on the thousands of disappeared people in Latin America

Two visions of the trauma of disappeared people in Latin America had a central role at Sunday's Academy Awards

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‘I’m Still Here’ from Brazil wins Oscar for best international film

A Brazilian film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, won the Oscar for best international film

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Salon's infallible Oscar predictions

Salon's film critic and resident film buff are here to make sense of the most unpredictable awards season in years

Salon

Author behind Oscar-nominated film finds praise and ire for his rebuke of Brazil's dictatorship

Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil for four decades, has had intense days and exchanges since the movie based on his 2015 book “I’m Still Here” became a box-office success

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Why I’m Still Here should win the best picture Oscar

Walter Salles’s true-story drama reflects on a dark chapter from Brazil’s authoritarian past that has a chilling resonance for the world we live in today

The Guardian - UK

An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

INSIDE FILM: ‘I’m Still Here’ is inspired by the ‘disappearance’ of a real-life congressman in Seventies Brazil, and directed by Walter Salles, a childhood friend of the congressman’s family. It’s just the latest in a strange sub-genre of historical fiction made by filmmakers with insider access, writes Xan Brooks –…

The Independent UK

Oscars Best Picture nominee I'm Still Here tells a powerful, hidden story of Brazil's past – and it's been championed by everyone from Guillermo del Toro to Alfonso Cuarón

Big Screen Spotlight | I'm Still Here director Walter Salles opens up about the powerful response the biographical drama has received around the world

Total Film

In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance

Political resistance in movies often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising

The Independent UK

Brazilian film 'I’m Still Here' tops box office, forcing nation to reckon with dictatorship trauma

Brazilian-made dramas rarely last long in local cinemas

The Independent UK

Brazil film portraying notorious crime during dictatorship strikes chord: ‘It hasn’t been overcome’

Abduction and murder of Rubens Paiva under the 1964-85 regime is retold in new box office hit I’m Still Here

The Guardian - US

I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

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Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 election

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