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The Secret Agent: gripping thriller reminds us why academic freedom needs protecting

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto, 2025) marks a moment of consolidation in one of contemporary Brazilian cinema’s most consistent careers.

The Conversation

Central Station review – Walter Salles’s big-hearted Brazilian road movie boasts stellar performances

Salles’s 1998 breakthrough about a woman’s quest to find the father of a rescued child closes with a satisfying click while it questions everyone’s motives

The Guardian - UK

Penélope Cruz, Bruce Springsteen, Walter Salles and Bowen Yang are 2025 Academy Museum Gala honorees

Penélope Cruz, Bruce Springsteen, Walter Salles and Bowen Yang have been named the honorees of this year's Academy Museum Gala, hosted by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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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

The Independent UK

Meet Walter Salles: The Billionaire Director Behind Brazilian Best Picture Nominee 'I'm Still Here'

The Brazilian director has a long history with the Academy Awards and is the heir to a billion-dollar empire in Brazil.

Latin Times

Jubilant Brazilians hail I’m Still Here’s Oscar as landmark in fight for justice

Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attempt

The Guardian - US

Brazil Celebrates Fernanda Torres' Oscar Nomination During Carnival

Brazil's Carnival season buzzes with excitement as Fernanda Torres vies for an Oscar, showcasing the nation's cultural pride.

Top News

Making history at the Oscars 2025: Five takeaways from the Academy Awards

A documentary makes a statement in support of Palestinian rights, while other artists break barriers in film diversity.

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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

I’m Still Here wins Oscar for best international film, becoming first Brazilian film to do so

Brazil’s official entry beats beleaguered French favourite Emilia Pérez to the podium

The Guardian - UK

Brazilians have waited 25 years to avenge Gwyneth Paltrow’s Oscar win – Fernanda Torres might just do it

OSCARS 2025: In 1999, Brazilians were left frustrated when Fernanda Montenegro, one of the country’s most famous and respected actors, was beaten to an Academy Award by the ‘Shakespeare in Love’ star. Now, almost three decades later, Montenegro’s daughter – the star of the celebrated drama ‘I’m Still Here’ –…

The Independent UK

Oscars 2025: best actress nominees – awards, interviews and what their chances are

What to know about the actors nominated for the Academy Awards’ biggest acting prize, along with the Guardian’s reviews and interviews

The Guardian - UK

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

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I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule

When a former congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda Torres

The Conversation

I’m Still Here: a vibrant testament to female resilience that mourns Brazil’s dark past

Director Walter Salles’s first feature film since 2012, the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here is a return to home ground, and a return to strength, for the Brazilian auteur. At 68, Salles reconnects with his youth, telling a story in which he does not figure, but takes up the role of…

The Independent UK

Fernanda Torres is masterful in the poignant, Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here

4/5 This sensational true-life tale from director Walter Salles depicts the abduction of a congressman in military-occupied Brazil in 1970 – and fully deserves its three Oscar nods

The Guardian - UK

I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappeared

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Evening Standard

I’m Still Here review: Fernanda Torres is breathtaking in Walter Salles’s true tale of female fortitude

5/5 The gut-wrenching story of Eunice Paiva and her family from the dark days of Brazilian dictatorship is a triumph of humanity

The Independent 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 Guardian - UK

Film-maker Walter Salles: ‘Cinema, as opposed to noise, used to be at the heart of the Oscars’

The Brazilian director on his Oscar-nominated new film, I’m Still Here, the importance of remembering shared history, and Brazil’s double pandemic

Total Film

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

The Independent UK

Best Actress Oscar-nominee Fernanda Torres apologises for wearing Blackface in resurfaced sketch

‘It is important for me to address this swiftly,’ the actor said

WhatToWatch

I’m Still Here: how to watch, awards, cast and everything we know about the surprise Best Picture nominee

Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres’ drama was a surprising hit with the Oscars, so let’s fill you in on all the details of I’m Still Here.

The Independent UK

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

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